Klee and America Menil Publications and curator

and curator

With detailed installation diagrams and reproductions of every art object displayed published here for the first time

former director of the Menil Collection

David Breslin is the curator and director of the collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art

College Station

Klee and America Menil Publications and curatorKlee and America accompanies the first large scale exhibition of Paul Klees (18791940) work to take place in the United States in almost two decades. Despite his recent low profile in the country, the work of the German born artist has a long history of enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. By the early 1920s, Klee was one of the leading figures within the European modernist movement, often mentioned