Andrew Dasburg

Addison Rowe Gallery presents Andrew Dasburg (1887-1979): Symphonic Drawings. Internationally known and highly respected by his peers, Dasburg became a pioneer in the field of American modernism and was a strong proponent of the ideals of Cezanne and Cubism. This in-depth exhibition focuses on the variety, skill and complexity of his drawings covering his early period from 1912, to his vastly different works of the transitional 1950s, to his later minimal style of the 1960s and 1970s. In the words of art historian Van Deren Coke, “It was, however, the drawings done after 1950 that marked Dasburg as a major artist…”

(Andrew Dasburg 1887-1979, A Retrospective Exhibition catalogue, pg. 3)