All Stars: American Artists from The Phillips Collection

All Stars: American Artists from The Phillips Collection showcases some of the best of American art from the Washington, D.C.-based The Phillips Collection, one of the most celebrated collections of American art in the United States.

These landmark works encompass more than 140 years of unexpected visual conversations between American artists about what connects us as humans. With works by more than 50 artists including Benny Andrews, Arthur G. Dove, Childe Hassam, Jacob Lawrence, Georgia O'Keeffe, Jackson Pollock, and more, the show explores American art from the birth of the modernist spirit at the end of the nineteenth century through post-war American painting in the mid-twentieth century and into the twenty-first century, with artists exploring the important issues of today.

Founded by Duncan Phillips in 1921, The Phillips Collection opened to the public as America's first museum of modern art. All Stars: American Artists from The Phillips Collection is the second large-scale, traveling presentation of The Phillips' celebrated collection to be shown at the DAM, chronicling the broad scope of its holdings. On view from November 12, 2023, through March 3, 2024, the exhibition will have discounts available for museum members, students, and all visitors 18 and under.

Abstract painting of a dark moonlit skyline — Arthur G. Dove, *Me and the Moon*, 1937. Wax emulsion on canvas; 18 x 26 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1939.

Scene of several men and woman along a riverbank, with a sailboat and mountain landscape in the far horizon. — Maurice Brazil Prendergast, *Fantasy*, about 1917. Oil on canvas; 22 5/8 x 31 5/8 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1921.

Impressionistic landscape of a mountain scape populated by bright fall colors and changing leaves — Marsden Hartley, *Mountain Lake - Autumn*, about 1910. Oil on canvas; 12 x 12 in. The Phillips Collection: Gift of Rockwell Kent, 1926.

Cloe-up of a large red leaf, with visible plant veins — Georgia O'Keeffe, *Large Dark Red Leaves on White*, 1925. Oil on canvas; 32 in. x 21 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1943. © 2022 Georgia O'Keeffe Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Crowded scene of a mass of people at a train station, with the train running by overhead — John Sloan, *Six O’Clock*, *Winter*, 1912. Oil on canvas; 26 1/8 in. x 32 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1922. © 2022 Delaware Art Museum / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York

Man sitting contemplatively on the curb outside a shop — Edward Hopper, Sunday, 1926. Oil on canvas; 29 in. x 34 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1926. © 2022 Heirs of Josephine N. Hopper / Licensed by Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY.

Woman from the 1930s flapper era wearing an elaborate black and white feathered headpiece — Walt Kuhn, *Plumes*, 1931. Oil on canvas; 40 in. x 30 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1932.

Cubist-abstractionist painting of an African American man standing with folded hands, wearing a tan hat and overalls — Joseph Holston, *The Elder*, 2002. Oil on canvas; 30 x 40 in. The Phillips Collection: Gift of Joseph and Sharon Holston, 2014. © Joseph Holston 2002.

Group of migrants walking across a landscape with their belongings, with a flock of birds overhead — Jacob Lawrence, *Migration Series, Panel 3*, 19401941. Casein tempera on hardboard; 12 in. x 18 in. The Phillips Collection: Acquired 1942. © 2022 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York.

Painting of a black woman outline in white wearing white makeup and an elaborate headdress — Janet Taylor Pickett, *And She was Born*, 2017. Acrylic on canvas with printed paper collage; 30 in. x 30 in. The Phillips Collection: The Dreier Fund for Acquisitions, 2020. © Janet Taylor Pickett, courtesy Jennifer Baahng Gallery

Family having an argument at the dinner table while two young kids are seated and watching — Aaron Maier-Carretero, *not in front of the kids*, 2020. Oil on canvas; 55 in. x 72 in. The Phillips Collection: The Dreier Fund for Acquisitions, 2021. Courtesy of the artist and Luis De Jesus Los Angeles.

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All Stars: American Artists from The Phillips Collection is organized by The Phillips Collection in collaboration with the Denver Art Museum. Support is provided by the Tom Taplin Jr. and Ted Taplin Endowment, Lisë Gander and Andy Main, Mike Leprino Family Foundation, the donors to the Annual Fund Leadership Campaign, and the residents who support the Scientific and Cultural Facilities District (SCFD). Promotional support is provided by 5280 Magazine and CBS Colorado.