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Guernica exhibition brochure, 1939
Valentine Gallery, New York
National Gallery of Art Library, Rare Books
The display of Guernica and its preparatory studies at the Valentine Gallery, a leading commercial gallery that represented Tamayo in the 1930s and 1940s, was a major artistic event. The American Artists' Congress, an antifascist group headed by Stuart Davis and Max Weber, helped secure the venue and organized two symposia during the run of the exhibition. Guernica later traveled to Los Angeles, San Francisco, and Chicago before returning to New York, where it was featured in the Museum of Modern Art's major retrospective Picasso: Forty Years of His Art. Guernica remained in MoMA's care until it was returned to Spain in 1981. |