Object Notes

1955.35 George Grosz, View of Manhattan


GENERAL DESCRIPTION  
George Grosz's flight from Germany in 1933 did not insulate him from the encroaching chill of war. Alive to the political circumstances in which he had found himself, Grosz made a show of abandoning the political engagement of his earlier work in favor of a new "humanisme," [1] as he termed it, a new subject matter: city views of Manhattan, Cape Cod landscapes, and nudes.