Art of the United States: 1900–1944

The Blanton’s collection demonstrates the plurality of styles in the art of the United States from the 1900s to 1940s. The gift of the collection of novelist James A. Michener and his wife Mari Sabusawa Michener forms the core of the Blanton’s holdings in this area. Figurative paintings by artists, including Thomas Hart Benton, Philip Evergood, Yasuo Kuniyoshi, Reginald Marsh, and Fletcher Martin, picture—and often comment on—the realities of everyday life. The impact of transatlantic exchange and rapid social and technological change inflects the new vocabularies of artists such as Stuart Davis, Arthur Garfield Dove, Arshile Gorky, and Max Weber, whose work represents the emergence of modernism in the U.S. The Blanton’s collection also includes nearly 100 paintings, sculpture, and works on paper depicting the American West, donated by University of Texas alumnus C.R. Smith.

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