Monet to Matisse: Defying Tradition

Featuring fifty-seven Toledo Museum of Art collection works, this exhibition of European and American masterworks of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries tells the story of artists defying tradition and transforming modern art, from Impressionism to Cubism and Surrealism to Abstract Expressionism. Select works from the gallery’s collection complement and enrich the experience.

Featured artists include Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Helen Frankenthaler, Henri Matisse, Piet Mondrian, Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Robert Rauschenberg, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Vincent van Gogh, and James McNeill Whistler.

Art Gallery of South Australia
11 July to 15 November 2026
South Australia

Henri Matisse (b. Le Cateau-Cambrésis, France 1869; d. Nice, France 1954), Dancer Resting, 1940, oil on canvas, 81.3 × 64.8cm / Gift of Mrs. C. Lockhart McKelvy, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, United States of America / © Succession H. Matisse, Copyright Agency, 2025

Ad Reinhardt (b. New York, US 1913, d. New York, US 1967), Number 1, 1951, oil on canvas, 202.9 × 86.4 × 5.1cm / Museum Purchase, Toledo Museum of Art, Ohio, US / © Ad Reinhardt, ARS, Copyright Agency, 2025

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