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Isabelle Dervaux On American Surrealism

American Surrealism differed from the movement that originated in France in the 1920s as artists reinterpreted Dalí's dreamlike imagery in the context of the Great Depression and under the influence of the American realist tradition.

Isabelle Dervaux is the Acquavella Curator of Modern and Contemporary Drawings at the Morgan Library & Museum in New York. In 2005, she organized Surrealism USA, a major survey on Surrealism in the United States.

This Lecture was part of the Louis A. and Francis B. Wagner Lecture Series.

Built by artist and educator Marion Koogler McNay in the 1920s, the Spanish Colonial Revival residence opened as Texas's first museum of modern art in 1954. Today more than 100,000 visitors a year enjoy works by modern masters including Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Hopper, Georgia O'Keeffe, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, & Pierre-Auguste Renoir. In June 2008, the museum opened the 45,000-square-foot Jane and Arthur Stieren Center for Exhibitions designed by internationally renowned French architect Jean-Paul Viguier. Nearly doubling the McNay's exhibition space, the Stieren Center includes three separate outdoor sculpture galleries.