The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism Preview Days

Members and Patrons are invited to preview The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism before it opens to the public!

Timed Reservations are not required for this Preview Day. Guests will be admitted on a first come, first serve basis. Once the galleries reach capacity, the virtual queue will be implemented.

About the exhibition

Through some 160 works of painting, sculpture, photography, film, and ephemera, The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism will explore the comprehensive and far-reaching ways in which Black artists portrayed everyday modern life in the new Black cities that took shape in the 1920s–40s in New York City’s Harlem and nationwide in the early decades of the Great Migration when millions of African Americans began to move away from the segregated rural South. The first art museum survey of the subject in New York City since 1987, the exhibition will establish the Harlem Renaissance and its radically new development of the modern Black subject as central to the development of international modern art.

Member Guest Policy for Member Preview Days

Member cardholders and their guests are invited to Member Preview Days.
Members with Early Views may bring up to 1 guest.
Members with Evening Hours may bring up to 2 guests.
Patrons and Members with Opening Nights may bring up to 4 guests to Member Preview Days.

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William H. Johnson (American, 1901–1970). Woman in Blue, c. 1943. Oil on burlap, 35 x 27 in. (88.9 x 68.6 cm). Clark Atlanta University Art Museum, Permanent Loan from the National Collection of Fine Art, 1969.013

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