Between the Wars: European Works on Paper, 1914-1945

The Toledo Museum of Art

Hitchcock and Stevens Galleries

September 1 – December 30, 2008

Art History Professor, Marc Gerstein is curating Between the Wars: European Works on Paper, 1914 - 1945 at the Toledo Museum of Art. Between the Wars explores the impact of two world wars and of the desire for radical reinvention and renewal in the prints, drawings, and illustrated books of this complex and fertile period.  Drawing on the rich holdings of the Museum in this area, it includes works by Miró, Dalí, Chagall, Picasso, Beckmann, Malevich, Lissitzky, Matisse, and other leading European artists.  The exhibition was organized and texts written by Marc Gerstein, Professor of Art History at the University of Toledo, in conjunction with his Fall semester Art History course “Abstract Art, Dada and Surrealism.”