American Modernisms: Modern Stories, Types, & Aesthetics, curated by the Spring 2024 graduate seminar ARTH 9545 led by Elizabeth Hutton Turner, is on view through October 29, 2024 in the First Floor Gallery of Harrison/Small. Find our hours and directions online.
During the spring 2024 semester, four graduate students enrolled in ARTH 9545 American Modernisms located and analyzed visual evidence of modern types and modern stories in a variety of print genres in the Albert and Shirley Small Special Collections Library. These included cartoons, caricatures, advertising illustrations for American periodicals, graphic novels, illustrated dust jackets, and playbills over a range of dates from 1900 to 1939.
There will be a reception on the evening of Tuesday, October 22nd from 5:30-7:00pm with gallery talks by student curators Leo Palma and Emmy Monaghan starting at 6:45pm.