1914, William Zorach, Spring in Central Park -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Most well-known for his later work as a sculptor, Zorach spent two years studying painting in Paris, returning to New York in 1912. He wrote that his depictions of Central Park were "painted at home from imagination ... in all wild colors, peopled with exotic nudes," but the bold hues and undulating outlines recall the work of the Fauves, notably Henri Matisse and André Derain, whose canvases he had seen in Paris. With his wife, Marguerite, an avant-garde painter herself, Zorach associated with many of America's earliest modernists in New York in the 1910s, including Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin. In 1913 both Zorachs exhibited at the prestigious International Exhibition of Modern Art, known as the "Armory Show."
1914, William Zorach, Spring in Central Park -- Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York)
From the museum label: Most well-known for his later work as a sculptor, Zorach spent two years studying painting in Paris, returning to New York in 1912. He wrote that his depictions of Central Park were "painted at home from imagination ... in all wild colors, peopled with exotic nudes," but the bold hues and undulating outlines recall the work of the Fauves, notably Henri Matisse and André Derain, whose canvases he had seen in Paris. With his wife, Marguerite, an avant-garde painter herself, Zorach associated with many of America's earliest modernists in New York in the 1910s, including Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, and John Marin. In 1913 both Zorachs exhibited at the prestigious International Exhibition of Modern Art, known as the "Armory Show."