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Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, 1952

Summer 2011

In 1952, George Grosz, the German expatriate artist, was invited to Dallas by local department store magnate, Leon Harris, to produce a series of watercolor and oil paintings illustrating the landscape and society of Dallas. A group of these works was exhibited at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, but the series has never been exhibited together since the 1950s.

Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, 1952 will present 18 works from the series together with additional paintings, watercolors and drawings by Grosz from various stages in his career, including early Expressionist images produced in Berlin and later paintings from his New York period. The exhibition will also contextualize the Impressions series with historic photographs of Dallas.

Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas, 1952 is organized by the Dallas Museum of Art and curated by Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art.

Image:

George Grosz, Dallas Broadway, 1952, watercolor on paper, Dallas Museum of Art, Foundation for the Arts Collection, anonymous gift in memory of Leon A. Harris

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