Auspicious Vision November 4, 2009

Artist Edward Wales Root is featured in this exhibit titled, "Auspicious Vision: Edward Wales Root and American Modernism." From 1902 and 1953, Edward Wales Root amassed a spectacular collection of contemporary American art which became the cornerstone of the Munson-Williams-Proctor Art Institute collection with his bequest of 227 works in 1957. This exhibition surveys Root's wide ranging interests in such artists as Maurice Prendergast, Edward Hopper, Charles Burchfield, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock and more.