Upcoming Exhibition
This summer explore a compelling exhibition of self-taught artists who “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States!
Reserve an hour long docent-led tour of our upcoming exhibition, Gatecrashers: The Rise of the Self-Taught Artist in America. Offered daily between 9:30 a.m. and 3:15 p.m.

Learn more about this exciting new exhibition below!
After World War I, artists without formal training “crashed the gates” of major museums in the United States, diversifying the art world across lines of race, ethnicity, class, ability and gender. This exhibition features over 60 works by celebrated painters such as Horace Pippin, Anna Mary Robertson “Grandma” Moses and John Kane, as well as other artists who are lesser known now but were recognized in their day, including Josephine Joy, Morris Hirshfield, Lawrence Lebduska, Patrick Sullivan and 17 others.

The exhibition expands upon the High Museum of Art’s curator Katherine Jentleson’s book of the same title and will reveal the degree to which the success of self-taught artists in this period was part of the mainstream art world’s ongoing search for “authentically” American art. Read more here.
Don't wait to make your reservation as spaces are limited!
Group and tour operator rates are available. 
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IMAGE CREDITS:
Top image: Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) (American, 1860–1961), Black Horses, 1942, oil on Masonite, courtesy of Galerie St. Etienne, New York. © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York.

Bottom left image: Grandma Moses (Anna Mary Robertson Moses) (American, 1860–1961), Sugaring Off, 1943, oil on canvas, courtesy of Galerie St. Etienne, New York. © Grandma Moses Properties Co., New York.

Bottom right image: John Kane (American, born Scotland, 1860–1934), Larimer Avenue Bridge, 1932, oil on canvas, Carnegie Museum of Art, gift of G. David Thompson.