Whitney Museum Re-Informs Our Modernist Gaze, Displaying Artists Who Have Been Under-Represented In Art History Alongside Leading Masters

My 12-year-old son, Michael Alexander, was drawn in by the sinewy lines and the ethereal colors of Adele Watson's Untitled (Mountain Island Monk), declaring it his favorite work in the Whitney Museum of American Art’s Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism.