The Eight and American Modernisms
A beautiful exhibition…The Eight and American Modernisms is really eight little survey shows in one. —The New York Times
The legendary aura of The Eight influenced artists all across the country... —American Art Review (PDF)
Explor[es] the under-appreciated stylistic complexities of The Eight —Watercolor Artist (PDF)
Modern people take for granted the idea that art and media represent all walks of life, so it can be hard to grasp just how extraordinary these paintings were in their day. —The New Britain Herald
Explores the idea that the artists included in the group were, in fact, anti-realist or expressionist, painting from memory and imagination. —American Artist (PDF)
Their brushwork was bold and painterly, with a stab at homegrown Impressionism and color experimentation —The Hartford Courant
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs
The world is ready to celebrate the idiosyncratic furniture of Charles Rohlfs —Old House Interiors (PDF)
One of the most enigmatic and celebrated American designers of the early 20th Century —The Magazine Antiques (PDF)
His “artistic furniture” had no precedents or peers, only imitators…His desks are riddled with secret compartments and have finials shaped like leaping flames. Cell-like honeycombs are stretched taut across the backs of his chairs. His designs [are] so primitive yet so new and modern that they excite wonder. —New York Times
Charles Rohlfs... was active as a furniture designer for a relatively short time, but his influence has been quite extensive. —Maine Antique Digest
This is a remarkably vivid portrait of a unique talent flourishing at one of those extraordinarily adventurous periods of transition, an idealistic time when there was a belief that design and art could transform society. —Interior Design Magazine
Terra Foundation for American Art is the lead sponsor for The Eight and American Modernisms. Caxambas Foundation is the Milwaukee Art Museum’s presenting lead sponsor. Additional support provided by the Greater Milwaukee Foundation, Donald and Barbara Abert Fund, at the advice of Barbara Tooman.
The Eight and American Modernisms is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the Terra Foundation for American Art. It is curated by Elizabeth Kennedy of the Terra Foundation for American Art and organized at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Liz Flaig.
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs is sponsored as a tribute to Henry Fuldner by the Trustees of the Layton Art Collection with gifts from the Faith and Willard Henoch and Frederick Vogel III Family Funds; the American Heritage Fund; the Dudley and Constance Godfrey Foundation, Inc.; David and Dedi Knox; and the Milwaukee Art Museum’s American Arts Society and Collectors’ Corner.
The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs is organized by the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chipstone Foundation, and American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation. It is curated by Joseph Cunningham of American Decorative Art 1900 Foundation and organized at the Milwaukee Art Museum by Sarah Fayen.
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