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Painting and Sculpture Galleries
Fourth and fifth floor
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The Museum of Modern Art is home to the world's largest and most inclusive collection of modern painting and sculpture, comprising some 3,200 works dating from the late nineteenth century to the present. Galleries on the fourth and fifth floors of the Museum allow visitors to consider the Painting and Sculpture collection in new ways; by following different paths through the galleries, visitors may mimic the equally circuitous history of modern art.
Galleries on the fifth floor display works from 1880 to 1940, beginning with such pioneers of modern art as Paul Cézanne and Vincent van Gogh and continuing with masterworks by Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Giorgio de Chirico, Fernand Léger, Constantin Brancusi, Piet Mondrian, Salvador Dalí, and Joan Miró, among others. The major artistic movements of the modern period are explored—including Expressionism, Cubism, and Surrealism—providing a comprehensive overview of the foundations from which all subsequent modern and contemporary art would emerge.
The fourth-floor galleries present a selection
of works created between the early 1940s and the late 1960s, a period
bracketed by World War II and the war in Vietnam. Works in these
galleries reflect how artists of the period-among them Alberto Giacometti,
Jackson Pollock, Barnett Newman, Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol,
and Eva Hesse-responded to the opportunities and challenges posed
by the changing world around them to create powerful individual
masterworks and forge key artistic movements.
Focus:
Ad Reinhardt and Mark Rothko
March 7, 2008–ongoing
Focus:
Joseph Beuys
May 21, 2008–ongoing
Focus:
Picasso Sculpture
July 3–November 3, 2008
Pictured above:
Vincent van Gogh. The Starry Night. 1889. Oil on canvas, 29 x 36 1/4" (73.7 x 92.1 cm). The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Acquired through the Lillie P. Bliss Bequest
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