The Macon and Joan Brock Assortment of American Artwork

December 8, 2023 — March 10, 2024

That includes greater than 45 work, pastels, watercolors, and prints, this exhibition showcases probably the most vital collections of American artwork assembled within the twenty-first century.

The Brock Assortment spans almost 100 years of American artwork, from simply after the Civil Battle to the mid-twentieth century. Works by a variety of artists from Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, John La Farge, Thomas Wilmer Dewing and John Singer Sargent, to Marsden Hartley, Max Weber, George Bellows, Charles Sheeler, and Milton Avery chart a broad historical past of American artwork. 

John Singer Sargent (American, 1856–1925), Olives at Corfu, 1909, Oil on canvas, Promised Reward of the Macon and Joan Brock Assortment to the Chrysler Museum of Artwork

On the identical time, this presentation celebrates the generosity and imaginative and prescient of collectors Macon and Joan Brock whose present of the Macon and Joan Brock Assortment of American Artwork to the Chrysler represents essentially the most transformative addition to the establishment’s assortment since Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.’s foundational present greater than 50 years in the past.

The Brocks exercised nice foresight within the building of a set for the general public’s profit and the present of the gathering elevates the stature of the Chrysler’s American artwork holdings and applications, reworking it right into a nationwide chief within the exhibition, research, and appreciation of American artwork. 

The exhibition is accompanied by a scholarly catalogue, that includes entries written by main historians of American artwork. Collectively the exhibition and catalogue construct upon a legacy of scholarship in American artwork on the Chrysler, one which has been vastly enhanced by the generosity of Macon and Joan Brock.

A Shared Imaginative and prescient: The Macon and Joan Brock Assortment of American Artwork is organized by the Chrysler Museum of Artwork.