Making It New:
The Art and Style of Sara and Gerald Murphy
Williams College Museum, Williamstown, MA
This was the first exhibit to explore Sara and Gerald’s relationships with some of the pivotal figures of Paris of the 1920s. Their intimate circle included F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Cole Porter, Man Ray, and Dorothy Parker. The exhibit also featured Gerald’s seven surviving canvases along with paintings, watercolors, drawings, and photographs by artists within his circle.
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“Making It New captures the creative energy the couple contributed to their circle in France in the 1920s, when, as Fitzgerald wrote, “whatever happened seemed to have something to do with art.” The show also invites a reassessment of Mr. Murphy as an artist: Once dismissed as a bon vivant, he is now discussed as a progenitor of Pop Art.”
—Dorothy Spears, The New York Times
