'Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered' Review: This show features over 40 paintings by the self-taught artist known for his figures with two left feet, intricately textured animals and oddly proportioned nude women
Oct. 1, 2022 7:00 am ETthe Museum of Modern Art embraced self-taught artists and African and Meso-American art almost as ardently as it did sophisticated vanguardists. What was then unabashedly referred to as “primitive art” was seen as sharing modernism’s disregard for traditional aesthetic conventions.
In the 1930s and early 1940s, MoMA mounted such exhibitions as “Modern Primitives: Artists of the People”; “African Negro Art” and “American Sources of Modern Art ”; as well as shows devoted to paintings by Henri Rousseau, sculptures by William Edmondson and an elaborately decorated shoeshine stand made by a Sicilian immigrant. In 1943, perhaps seeking an American Henri Rousseau, Alfred H. Barr Jr.
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