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Painting in short brushstrokes of a round woman in a white blouse and long pink skirt standing in tall grass and flowers, dense trees behind her. Painting in short brushstrokes of a round woman in a white blouse and long pink skirt standing in tall grass and flowers, dense trees behind her. Charcoal sketch of a young man with receding hair wearing an open shirt, sitting in a crouched position, right leg bent in front of him. Charcoal sketch of a young man with receding hair wearing an open shirt, sitting in a crouched position, right leg bent in front of him. A figure with a star-shaped head wearing a red cloak juggles balls of light on a small stage that folds out from the back of an octagonally shaped structure on wheels. His audience on the right is composed of 20 almost identical men with light skin and brown hair wearing a gray cloak that connects between all of them. The scene takes place in what looks like a town square surrounded by various colored and shaped buildings and a tall wall on the left. A figure with a star-shaped head wearing a red cloak juggles balls of light on a small stage that folds out from the back of an octagonally shaped structure on wheels. His audience on the right is composed of 20 almost identical men with light skin and brown hair wearing a gray cloak that connects between all of them. The scene takes place in what looks like a town square surrounded by various colored and shaped buildings and a tall wall on the left.

Explore the radical new ways of painting Van Gogh and his contemporaries developed just outside Paris, get to know a more personal side of Ellsworth Kelly, and encounter the incongruous elements of Remedios Varo’s fantastical works.

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The vibrant colors and varied textures at the heart of Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde echo across the museum this summer.

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