Clever Child (Translation)
Klüges Kind (Primary Title)
Paul Klee, Swiss, 1879 - 1940 (Artist)
Paul Klee earned international acclaim in the 1920s when he was associated with the Bauhaus, the influential modernist design school in Germany. In early 1933, he was labeled a “degenerate” artist by the Nazi authorities, and he later fled to hisnative Switzerland, where he remained until his death in 1940. Klee’s art was greatly prized both in Europe and the United States for its qualities of fantasy, visual poetry, intuitiveness, and spontaneity. His appreciation of children’s art, asan expression of unspoiled creativity, lies behind his disregard for conventional threedimensional forms and proportions, as well as his use of simplified lines. These four portrait heads exemplify his stylistic versatility and range of techniques over a span of nearly twenty years.
T. Catesby Jones Collection
"Matisse, Picasso, and Modern Art in Paris: The T. Catesby Jones Collections at VMFA and the University of Virginia Art Museum," VMFA Statewide Exhibition, UVA, Charlottesville, January 30 - April 24, 2009; Museum of the Shenandoah Valley, Winchester, August 15 - November 29, 2009; William King Regional Art Center, Abingdon, December 11, 2009 - February 21, 2010; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, May 1 - August 15, 2010
"Seeing Across Cultures: Objects from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Marsh Art Gallery, George M. Modlin Center for the Arts, U.Richmond, Richmond, VA: 4 Oct. 1996 - 18 Jan. 1997
"Selections from the T. Catesby Jones Collection," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 15 - December 29, 1974
20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, September 12 - October 10, 1960
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, September 21 - October 26, 1959
Modern French Painting, Norfolk Museum, March 1 - March 26, 1958; Mary Baldwin College, April 9 - April 19, 1958
Lynchburg Art Center, March 26 - April 16, 1954
"Seeing Across Cultures: Objects from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts," Marsh Art Gallery, George M. Modlin Center for the Arts, U.Richmond, Richmond, VA: 4 Oct. 1996 - 18 Jan. 1997
"Selections from the T. Catesby Jones Collection," Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, November 15 - December 29, 1974
20th Century Gallery, Williamsburg, September 12 - October 10, 1960
Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, Virginia, September 21 - October 26, 1959
Modern French Painting, Norfolk Museum, March 1 - March 26, 1958; Mary Baldwin College, April 9 - April 19, 1958
Lynchburg Art Center, March 26 - April 16, 1954
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