Modern Art

Witness a Collection of Modern Art that comprises more than 2,400 paintings, sculpture and works on paper from the turn of the 20th century up to 1950. The collection represents many of the pioneers of European and American modernism.

Artists include:
Pablo Picasso, Jean Cocteau, Milton Avery, and Stuart Davis, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Stella, Arthur Dove, Oscar Bluemner, and Georgia O'Keeffe, Hans Hoffman, Seymour Lipton, Mark Rothko, Helen Frankenthaler, Willem De Kooning and more.

Select Exhibition History

Surrealism USA
Steele Gallery
June 5, 2005 – September 25, 2005

Vital Forms:
American Innovation in Art & Design, 1940-1960

Steele Gallery

April 6 - June 29, 2003

Left: Pink Abstraction, Georgia O'Keeffe, 1929. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Friends of Art. Center: Flowers, Italy, Joseph Stella, 1931. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Jonathan Marshall. Right:Female Bather with Raised Arms, Pablo Picasso, 1929. Oil on canvas. Collection of Phoenix Art Museum, Gift of the Allen-Bradley Company of Milwaukee.