Opening Celebration for "After Modernism"

Don’t miss the opening celebration for After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection in the newly renovated Arthur Ross Gallery. In addition to being among the first to view this remarkable exhibition, you are invited to enjoy refreshments, remarks, and a performance by the Counterparts, Penn’s oldest, all-gender, student a cappella group.
About After Modernism:

Drawn from the Neumann Family Collection of over 3,000 works of primarily European and American art spanning the 20th and 21st centuries, After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection brings together over 50 works of art. It includes rarely seen work by Pablo Picasso, Paul Klee, and Hannah Hoch collected by Morton and Rose Neumann; pieces by Jeff Koons, Keith Haring, and Ashley Bickerton acquired by Hubert Neumann; and very contemporary paintings by Allison Zuckerman (C’12), Danny Farrell, Nina Chanel Abney, and others brought into the collection by Hubert, in conversation with his youngest daughter Melissa Neumann.

After Modernism: Selections from the Neumann Family Collection is curated by Arthur Ross Gallery Faculty Director Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, Class of 1940 Bicentennial Term Professor in the History of Art, with the assistance of Debra Purden of the Neumann Family Collection. The labels and audio guide for the exhibition were written and produced by University of Pennsylvania undergraduate students enrolled in CIMS3965: The Art of Art Collecting, co-taught by Shaw and Peter Decherney, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Endowed Term Professor in the Humanities. A special virtual reality experience of the Neumann Family Collection (as installed in Hubert Neumann’s New York City home on October 19, 2024) has been produced by Decherney, with assistance from the CIMS3965 students, and Ethan Berg, CEO, Agora World.

Event Venue & Nearby Stays

Arthur Ross Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Located in the Fisher Fine Arts Library Building, Philadelphia, United States