America After the Fall is an exhibition from the most diverse and dynamic period of American art in the 20th Century.
The Art Institute of Chicago invites you to discover the aesthetically and politically varied works produced in the 1930s that paint a revealing portrait of the nation’s evolving psyche. Collectively, these works show how painters re-thought modernism. The exhibition tells the story of a turbulent time in American history, featuring fifty masterpieces of American painting — including seminal works by Edward Hopper, Grant Wood, Thomas Hart Benton, Georgia O’Keeffe, Aaron Douglas, Charles Sheeler, Stuart Davis, and others.
