Remembrance and Renewal will be the first exhibition to examine the impact of the Holocaust on the development of midcentury American art. It will bring together approximately sixty works of art from collections nationwide, featuring a wide range of aesthetic approaches by artists both canonical and little known.
An accompanying catalogue will be published by Yale University Press.
Generous support for this exhibition and catalogue has been provided by the Henry Luce Foundation; the Foltyn Family; the Dorit and Gerald Paul Fund for Jewish Culture and the Arts in the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University; Glick Philanthropies; the Herbert Simon Family Foundation; the IU Presidential Arts and Humanities program; the Jewish Culture Center, Indiana University; the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture; the Boris Lurie Art Foundation and the Schaina & Josephina Lurje Memorial Foundation; Jack and Grace Dayan; POSH on Kirkwood, Elliot L. Lewis; the Pressman Family; Paula W. Sunderman, PhD; Dorit S. Paul; and faculty research funding from the Borns Jewish Studies Program, Indiana University.
