PIFA: How 'Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down on the Farm After They'Ve Seen Paree? April 26, 2011

In conjunction with the Kimmel Center's 2011 inaugural Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts (PIFA), PAFA presents an installation of art from the 1910's and 1920's showing American artists' connections with France. The installation centers on Florine Stettheimer's sumptuous scene of artist friends (including the three Stettheimer sisters, Marcel Duchamp and Elie Nadelman) enjoying a picnic idyll at the tail end of World War I. Other prominent PAFA modernist paintings will be included to bring out the influence of Parisian modernism on American art.