MODERNISM Fiske
Gertrude Horsford Fiske, “Graveyard, Cape Neddick.” Gift of Artemis P. Willis, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art.

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art announces that the exhibition “Networks of Modernism: 1898-1968” will travel to the University of New Hampshire’s Art Gallery where it will be on view Jan. 14 through March 16. The exhibition brings together more than 50 works from OMAA’s collection to tell a story of the artistic networks that animated modern art in the United States.

“We are thrilled to be collaborating with UNH to travel this exhibition to the university’s Art Gallery,” notes Devon Zimmerman, curator of Modern and Contemporary Art at OMAA. “This iteration of ‘Networks of Modernism’ provides ongoing access to the museum’s permanent collection at a time that the institution is closed to the public while sharing with new audiences the incredible works at OMAA.”

The museum will work closely with university faculty and students to offer internships and research opportunities as part of the collaboration, led by Sophie Cordery, the OMAA education and community outreach fellow. 

Organized into a series of thematic groupings, “Networks of Modernism” contextualizes the artists who lived, worked or frequented Ogunquit within this broader, interconnected story of American modernism. From the shifting landscape of rapid urbanization and modern forms of labor to places of escape from the effects of modernity — in both nature and the imagination — this exhibition maps the many ways artists reacted to the immense social, political and economic changes affecting life in the United States over a roughly 70-year period.

“Networks of Modernism” was organized by the Ogunquit Museum of America Art, where it was on view in the summer of 2023.

For more information, visit https://cola.unh.edu/art-art-history/gallery-art/upcoming-exhibitions.

The Ogunquit Museum of American Art is at 543 Shore Road, Ogunquit. Opened in 1953, OMAA was founded by the artist Henry Strater. The museum shares close historic and geographic ties to one of the earliest modern arts communities in the United States. OMAA houses a permanent collection of paintings, sculpture, drawings, prints and photographs from the late 1800s to the present. The museum showcases American art by mounting modern and contemporary exhibitions and accompanying educational programming and events. For more information, visit www.ogunquitmuseum.org.