To Make A World: George Ault and 1940s America May 30, 2011

This exhibition centers on five paintings Ault made between 1943 and 1948 depicting the crossroads of Russell's Corners in Woodstock, N.Y. The additional 22 artists represented in this exhibition include some as celebrated as Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth, while others are scarcely known to today's art audiences. Taken together, their artworks reveal an aesthetic vein running through 1940s American art that previously has not been identified. From their remote corners of the country, these artists conveyed a still quietude that seems filled with potentialities.