This exhibition features approximately 40 works of art representative of the Modern landscape in America - with work by Frank Applegate, Jozef Bakos, Gustave Baumann, Oscar Bluemner, Dorothy Brett, Howard Cook, Andrew Dasburg, Herbert Dunton, Emmet Edwards, William P. Henderson, Gina Knee, Barbara Latham, John Marin, Jan Matulka, Lloyd Moylan, Willard Nash, B.J.O. Nordfeldt, Doel Reed, Birger Sandzen, Beulah Stevenson, Walter Ufer, Cady Wells, William P. Zorach and others. Modernist painters of the late 19th and early 20th centuries looked beyond ordinary sensory perception in nature and focused on the visual excitement of nature's colors, forms and patterns for their own sake. They saw landscape as an unpredictable environment of fragmented color, rhythm and shapes – allowing them to discard old artistic conventions and to transform our notion of nature's beauty and, consequently, our place within it. They took liberty with color, space and form to evoke feeling rather than literal representation, with their work still remaining inextricably linked to the land and environments that inspired them. For further information please contact Kelly Lyon at Owings-Dewey North: (505) 986-9088 or north@owingsdewey.comPlease click on the PDF link above for a copy of the original press release.