Ranging from painterly abstraction to Pop art, this installation drawn from the Bruce Museum's permanent collection traces broad trends in postwar American art. Highlights include Andy Warhol’s 1974 portfolio Flowers (Hand Colored), which combines the artist’s famed silkscreen technique with hand-painted watercolor, mediating between unique works and mechanical reproductions. Works on paper by Sam Gilliam, Jasper Johns, and Robert Motherwell also blur material distinctions, integrating and simulating collage with drawn, found, and printed layers. Joan Snyder’s Banished Muse incorporates collage alongside paint and fabric to activate the canvas’s surface, while Sam Francis employs colorful, drip-like forms to create an allover abstraction. Together, the works on view embody the diverse range of artistic approaches to making and materiality in twentieth-century art.

Installation images courtesy Patrick Sikes.