Annette DiMeo Carlozzi
Curator of American and Contemporary Art
Today, the Blanton's collection of modern and contemporary American art consists of more than 4,000 paintings, prints, drawings, sculptures and works in new media from the mid-19th century to the present.
Noteworthy concentrations include late 19th- and early 20th-century paintings of the American West from the C. R. Smith Collection (Albert Bierstadt, Frederic Remington, Arthur Fitzwilliam Tait, Henry Farny); printmaking between the Wars (William Meyerowitz, Clare Leighton, Texas regionalists); American Scene and Social Realism (Ben Shahn, Thomas Hart Banton, Philip Evergood, Raphael Soyer, Jacob Lawrence); early American modernism (Max Weber, Marsden Hartley, John Marin, Arthur Dove, Stuart Davis); Abstract Expressionism (Mark Rothko, Arshile Gorky, Hans Hofmann, Adolph Gottlieb, Joan Mitchell, Franz Kline), paintings from the 1960s (Alfred Jensen, Al Held, Ellsworth Kelly, Helen Frankenthaler, Peter Saul, Brice Marden, Richard Tuttle, Jo Baer) from the Mari and James A. Michener Collection; Conceptual Art (Vito Acconci, Ana Mendieta, and Lee Lozano); a compilation of 13 works by artist Yayoi Kusama spanning 30 years of her long career; and a dynamic collection of contemporary art in all media by a culturally diverse group of emerging and established figures (Fabian Marcaccio, Shahzia Sikander, Bill Viola, David Reed, Ellen Gallagher, Jeremy Blake, Arturo Herrera, Rachel Harrison, Byron Kim, Dario Robleto, Oliver Herring, James Turrell).