Modern and Contemporary Art

Marion Mann Roberts Gallery of Modern & Contemporary Art

Originally opened in 1931, the Museum's recently renamed Marion Mann Roberts Gallery is devoted to rotating selections of modern and contemporary art from the early twentieth century to the present. Contrasting views of urban life and nature are especially prevalent. Numerous assembled artists emphasize modern and contemporary art's multiculturalism through the diverse scope of gender, heritage, style, and subject matter.

The Modern & Contemporary Art Collection includes work by Walker Evans, Berenice Abbott, Philip Evergood, Mark Rothko, Adolph Gottlieb, Kenzo Okada, Robert Motherwell, Steve Wheeler, Jackson Pollock, Richard Diebenkorn, Garry Winogrand, Will Barnet, Milton Avery, Tony Smith, Josef Albers, Andy Warhol, Louise Nevelson, Romare Bearden, Man Ray, Dennis Oppenheim, Alice Neel, Lee Friedlander, George Tice, George McNeil, Richard Anuszkiewicz, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, Philip Pearlstein, Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, & Robert Birmelin.

Currently, the Marion Mann Roberts Gallery is home to the permanent collection exhibition Engaging with Nature: American and Native American Artists (A.D. 1200 - 2004), on view from May 16, 2010 through September 25, 2011.

This is the first exhibition ever presented by the Museum to integrate American and Native American art from the collection from all time periods and around a central theme. More than half of the nearly 40 works have never or rarely been displayed. The works in the exhibition encompass an astonishing variety of art and artifacts, from prehistoric Native American ceramics to historical 19th-century landscape paintings to contemporary staged photographs, suggesting various conceptions of landscape and nature.

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