Bridgeport High School Art Club traveled to Denver for their annual art trip recently to see the exhibit “All Stars: American Artists from The Phillips Collection”. This exhibit showcased some of the “Best of American art from the Washington, DCbased The Phillips Collection, one of the most celebrated collections of American art in the United States”, according to an online source about the exhibit.
The source goes on to say, “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.
