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Virtual Tour Third Floor: Mezzanine
The 3rd-floor mezzanine begins with early 20th-century work. European modernism, long underrepresented in the Chazen collection, is now epitomized by The Horse, a seminal sculpture by Raymond Duchamp-Villon, and The Schoolboy, a painting by Albert Gleizes. Antoine Pevsner's construction of 1925, The World, and Naum Gabo's Construction in Space: Arch of 1929-1937, relate stylistically to objects on the mezzanine. However, they are precursors of objects such as Red Monument to a Lost Dirigible by Theodore Roszak, a painted wood construction by Burgoyne Diller, and Relational Painting #73 by Fritz Glarner.
Developments in early 20th century American painting are represented by such works as Approach to the Bridge at Night by George Bellows and Our Good Earth painted in 1940-41 by John Steuart Curry while he was artist-in-residence at the University of Wisconsin.