Caught By Politics: Art of the 1930s and 1940s
January 19–March 18, 2001
Lower Galleries
Lower Galleries
Selected works
![3795.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3795.tif.jpg)
Reuben Kadish
Job
1945![3841.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3841.tif.jpg)
Arshile Gorky
Golden Brown Painting
1943–44![3815.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3815.jpg)
Werner Drewes
Re-awakening
1943–47![3780.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3780.tif.jpg)
Karl Zerbe
Armory
1943![3784.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3784.tif.jpg)
Fernand Léger
Les grands plongeurs (The Divers)
1941![3774.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3774.tif.jpg)
William Baziotes
Still Life
1945![3848.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3848.tif.jpg)
William Baziotes
Night Form
1947![3789.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3789.tif.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Les artistes mit Gemüse (Artists with Vegetable)
1943![4440_I.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_I.tif.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Self Portrait, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_II.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_II.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Weather-vane, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_III.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_III.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Sleeping Athlete, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_VI.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_VI.tif.jpg)
Max Beckmann
I Don't Want to Eat My Soup, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_VIII.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_VIII.tif.jpg)
Max Beckmann
King and Demagogue, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_X.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_X.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Dream of War, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_XI.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_XI.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Morning, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_XII.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_XII.tif.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Circus, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_XIV.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_XIV.jpg)
Max Beckmann
The Fall of Man, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![4440_XV.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4440_XV.jpg)
Max Beckmann
Christ and Pilate, from the portfolio Day and Dream
1946![3770.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3770.tif.jpg)
Alexander Calder
Bayonets Menacing a Flower
1945![3787.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3787.jpg)
Julio de Diego
Our Undersea Craft Have Been Raiding Supply Lines
1943![1984_7.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1984_7.jpg)
Werner Drewes
Apocalyptic Beasts
1945![1985_10_1.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1985_10_1.tif.jpg)
Marcel Duchamp
Pocket Chess Set
1944![3786.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3786.tif.jpg)
Max Ernst
L’oeil du silence (The Eye of Silence)
1943–44![3791.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3791.jpg)
Stanley William Hayter
Printing plate for Amazon
1945![3813.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3813.tif.jpg)
Mauricio Lasansky
Spring
1947![3837.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3837.tif.jpg)
Peter Grippe
The City II
1946![3766.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3766.tif.jpg)
Philip Guston
If This Be Not I
1945![3792.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3792.tif.jpg)
Stanley William Hayter
Amazon
1945![1977_2_12L.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1977_1979/1977_2_12L.tif.jpg)
Stanley William Hayter
Palimpsest
1946![3847.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3847.tif.jpg)
Hans Hofmann
White Space
1950![3781.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3781.tif.jpg)
Yasuo Kuniyoshi
Tomorrow Will Come
1945![4216.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4216.tif.jpg)
Jacques Lipchitz
Mother and Child
1949![4185.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4185.tif.jpg)
Fernand Léger
Les belles cyclistes (The Women Cyclists)
1944![3788.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3788.tif.jpg)
Roberto Matta
Lambeaux Iron-Oniriques (Iron-Oneiric Scraps)
1942![4282.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4282.jpg)
Roberto Matta
Untitled
1945![3835.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3835.tif.jpg)
Jacques Lipchitz
The Joy of Orpheus I
1945![4157.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/4157.tif.jpg)
Robert Motherwell
9th Street Collage
1951![3794.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3794.tif.jpg)
André Racz
Perseus Beheading Medusa, VIII
1945![3827.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3827.jpg)
Abraham Rattner
Job
1949![1978_2_1.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1977_1979/1978_2_1.jpg)
György Kepes
Optical Transformation
1940![1978_2_3.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1977_1979/1978_2_3.jpg)
György Kepes
Bread and Light
1937![1978_2_5.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1977_1979/1978_2_5.jpg)
György Kepes
Shadow Picture
1938![1986_4_6.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1980_1989/1986_4_6.jpg)
Nathan Lerner
Wooden Dowels Light Box Experiment
1939![3778.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3778.tif.jpg)
Edward John Stevens Jr.
Arrival of the Village Princess
1945![3775.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3775.tif.jpg)
Rufino Tamayo
Lion and Horse
1942![3772.tif](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_0_4571/3772.tif.jpg)
Yves Tanguy
La tour marine (Tower of the Sea)
1944![1993_8.jpg](https://kemper.qi-cms.com/website/media/w800/permanent_1990_1999/1993_8.jpg)