I missed the "Cézanne and American Modernism" show when it was in Montclair, so maybe I'll have to go to Baltimore, its current venue. Lots of early paintings by artists who absorbed Cézanne and then did their own thing (Sheeler, Man Ray), and photos by modernists who liked tweaking spatial relations (Strand). And I'm keen to see Paul Outerbridge, whose early photos are terrific spare studies of volumes and light--and who also went on to shoot early fetish photography (not included in this show, I imagine).
It's hard to overstate Cézanne's stature among modernists in this country; by 1920, any avant-garde artist worth his or her salt would've mentioned him. All that flattened perspective, visible brushwork, and distortion of form presaged every important element of modernism.
Reviews from the Times, the Washington Post (check the slideshow), MAN.
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