‘Rhythms Of Modern Life’

 On View At MFA Boston

‘RHYTHMS OF MODERN LIFE’ ON VIEW AT MFA, BOSTON

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BOSTON, MASS. — The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, presents the exhibition, “Rhythms of Modern Life: British Prints 1914–1939,” on view through June 1.

Co-organized by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, the exhibition examines the impact of futurism and Cubism on British modernist printmaking from the beginning of World War I to the beginning of World War II.

It features more than 100 lithographs, etchings, woodcuts and color linocuts by 14 artists, among them: C.R.W. Nevinson, Paul Nash, Edward Wadsworth and David Bomberg — the early followers of futurism and vorticism — and Claude Flight, Sybil Andrews, Cyril Power and Lill Tschudi — the later color linocut artists of London’s Grosvenor School of Art.

The exhibition’s imagery ranges from powerful artistic impressions of the first fully mechanized war, to radical geometric abstractions, to the colorful, streamlined jazz age images of speed, sport and diversion that artists created in order to introduce a broader public to modern art and design. Three quarters of the works shown are from New York collectors Johanna and Leslie Garfield. The exhibition is organized by the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in collaboration with the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

The museum is at 465 Huntington Avenue. For information, www.mfa.org or 617-267-9300.