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Delicate Flower Still Life in Watercolor with Pink and Purple, Mid Century
By David Landis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century watercolor on paper still life with purple and pink flowers is by Chicago artist David Landis (1918-1983). Landis was Associate Professor of Drawing and Paintin...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Still-life Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

Abstracted Colorful Landscape in Watercolor with Swimmers, Mid 20th Century
By David Landis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This mid 20th century colorful watercolor on paper landscape with swimmers, trees and boats is by Chicago artist David Landis (1918-1983). Landis was Associate Professor of Drawing a...
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Mid-20th Century American Modern Landscape Drawings and Watercolors

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Paper, Watercolor

"Dream of Rome"
By David Landis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This 1950 oil on canvas entitled "Dream of Rome" is by Chicago artist David Landis (1918-1983). Landis was Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting and faculty member at...
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1950s Modern Figurative Paintings

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Oil

"Dream of Rome"
"Dream of Rome"
H 31 in W 22 in D 2.5 in
Mid Century Polo Player
By David Landis
Located in San Francisco, CA
This Mid Century oil on masonite scene is by Chicago artist David Landis (1918-1983). Landis was Associate Professor of Drawing and Painting and faculty member at the Art Institute o...
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Modern Figurative Paintings

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Masonite, Oil

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A Close Look at modern Art

The first decades of the 20th century were a period of artistic upheaval, with modern art movements including Cubism, Surrealism, Futurism and Dadaism questioning centuries of traditional views of what art should be. Using abstraction, experimental forms and interdisciplinary techniques, painters, sculptors, photographers, printmakers and performance artists all pushed the boundaries of creative expression.

Major exhibitions, like the 1913 Armory Show in New York City — also known as the “International Exhibition of Modern Art,” in which works like the radically angular Nude Descending a Staircase by Marcel Duchamp caused a sensation — challenged the perspective of viewers and critics and heralded the arrival of modern art in the United States. But the movement’s revolutionary spirit took shape in the 19th century.

The Industrial Revolution, which ushered in new technology and cultural conditions across the world, transformed art from something mostly commissioned by the wealthy or the church to work that responded to personal experiences. The Impressionist style emerged in 1860s France with artists like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne and Edgar Degas quickly painting works that captured moments of light and urban life. Around the same time in England, the Pre-Raphaelites, like Edward Burne-Jones and Dante Gabriel Rossetti, borrowed from late medieval and early Renaissance art to imbue their art with symbolism and modern ideas of beauty.

Emerging from this disruption of the artistic status quo, modern art went further in rejecting conventions and embracing innovation. The bold legacy of leading modern artists Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo, Salvador Dalí, Henri Matisse, Joan Miró, Marc Chagall, Piet Mondrian and many others continues to inform visual culture today.

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