Edvard Munch, “Badende gutter (Bathing Boys),” oil on canvas, 1904-1905 (private collection)
Scandinavia House
58 Park Ave. at 38th St.
Thursday, January 26, $10, 6:30
Saturday, February 11, $40, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm
Exhibition continues through February 11 (Tuesday-Saturday, $5, 12 noon – 6:00 pm)
212-847-9740
www.scandinaviahouse.org
One hundred years ago, the American-Scandinavian Foundation put together a survey of modernist art from Denmark, Norway, and Sweden that visited several cities in the United States, introducing America to Nordic art and the region’s vast, diverse landscape and culture. Scandinavia House is celebrating the centennial of that important, influential show with “Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America, 1912,” on view through February 11. The show includes twenty artists and eight of the paintings from the original exhibition, divided into sections devoted to Denmark, Norway, and Sweden as well as Iceland and Finland, with works by such artists as Prince Eugen, Anna Boberg, Harald Sohlberg, Vilhelm Hammershøi, Thorvald Erichsen, Thórarinn Thorláksson, Karl Norstrom, Pekka Halonen, Anders Zorn, Ásgrímur Jónsson, and Edvard Munch. As part of the centennial celebration, Scandinavia House will present “Universal Truths and Local Fictions: Nordic Art on the Edge,” a lecture by curator Dr. Patricia Berman, on January 26 ($10, 6:30), and the all-day symposium “Regional Modernism: New Art in Scandinavia, 1880-1912” on February 11 ($40, 9:30 am – 6:00 pm).