20th Century Abstract Art from Ringling Collection

By Franz Kline

Considered one of the most “shocking” of all of the artistic innovations to change the course of art in the 20th century, abstraction has proven over time to be an enduring and influential movement. Composed entirely of The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art’s permanent collection, the gallery installation “20th century Abstract Art” provides a glimpse at this watershed moment in the history of Western art.

Visitors will experience in two galleries work many of the pioneers of this artistic revolution and its various manifestations, which has become a hallmark of high modernism. Pieces by artists such as Vassily Kandinsky, Arthur Dove, Franz Kline, Jules Olitski, Louise Nevelson, Alexander Calder, Yves Tanguy and Richard Serra among others will be on view, inviting visitors to explore this modernist paradigm. Now on exhibit at the Ringling Museum, 5401 Bay Shore Road, Sarasota. Call 941-359-5700.