"A Severe Selection"

This Museum's celebrated holdings of early 20th century art owe much to the adventurous and discerning taste of a small number of pioneer collectors, including Albert Eugene Gallatin. The important avant-garde paintings Gallatin assembled in the early decades of this century--by Mondrian, Miro, Picasso, Braque, Klee, Leger, and Demuth, among others--are familiar to visitors to the 20th-century galleries. This exhibition of some 100 rarely exhibited works on paper reveals for the first time in many years the full range of Gallatin's legacy.