Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America

A Centennial Retrospective 1912-2012

Edited and with introduction by Patricia G. Berman. Foreword by Edward P. Gallagher. Text by Charlotte Linvald, Janet S. Rauscher, Colleen Ritzau Leth, Ina Johannesen, Tomas Björk.

Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies a recent exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation’s first-ever exhibition, the highly influential Exhibition of Contemporary Scandinavian Art, held in 1912–1913. The original exhibition comprised 150 works by many of the leading artists working in Denmark, Norway and Sweden at the turn of the twentieth century. Luminous Modernism brings together 48 works by Harriet Backer, Richard Bergh, Akseli Gallen-Kallela, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Jean Heiberg, Otto Hesselbom, Eugène Jansson, Ludvig Karsten, Nils Kreuger, Christian Krohg, Edvard Munch, Lauritz Andersen Ring, Erik Theodor Werenskiold and other Scandinavian modernists.

More information on the project can be found here and the catalogue here.

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