Midnight in Paris & New York: Scenes from the 1890s - 1930s William Glackens and His Contemporaries
March 4, 2018 to October 18, 2019
Lynes, Barbara
William Glackens (1870-1938) and his American and French colleagues captured the rapidly changing society of the fin-de-siècle in Paris and New York with drawings, paintings, photographs, and posters. This exhibition, drawn from the museum’s collection, private collections, and the Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, and other sources explores this period through a variety of depictions of cafés, entertainment, and various sites In New York and Paris. Artists include Glackens, Alphonso Mucha, Everett Shinn, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others, and examples of French and American decorative arts of the period, known as art nouveau (1890s-1910) such as the distinctive architectural designs, furniture, glass, metalwork and silver of Jean Daum, Emile Gallé, Hector, Guimard, René Lalique, and Louis Comfort Tiffany, among others.
