©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/COURTESY MICHAEL ROSENFELD GALLERY LLC, NEW YORK, NY/FERN KARESH HURST
Pictures at an Exhibition presents images of one notable show every weekday.
Today’s show: “I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz Since 1920” is on view at the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart in Stuttgart, Germany, through Sunday, March 6. The sprawling survey, which traces the 100-year history of jazz in art since the term’s first mention in a Chicago Tribune article from 1915, includes works by Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, Otto Dix, Jean Dubuffett, Henri Matisse, Frank Stella, Andy Warhol, James Rosenquist, Romare Bearden, Albert Oehlen, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Marlene Dumas, and Rashid Johnson, among others.
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Otto Dix, Metropolis (Triptych), middle panel detail, 1927–28, oil and tempera on wood.
UWE H. SEYL, KUNSTMUSEUM STUTTGART/©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/KUNSTMUSEUM STUTTGART
Jean Dubuffett, Jazz Band Black Chicago, 1944, oil on canvas.
WALTER KLEIN, DÜSSELDORF/©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN, DÜSSELDORF
Max Beckmann, Begin the Beguine, 1946, oil on canvas.
©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN MUSEUM OF ART, MUSEUM PURCHASE, 1948
James Rosenquist, Big Bo, 1966, oil on canvas.
MURIEL ANSSENS, VILLE DE NICE/©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/COLLECTION MAMAC, NIZZA / NICE
Romare Bearden, The Savoy, 1975, mixed-media collage of various papers on hardboard.
©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/COURTESY MICHAEL ROSENFELD GALLERY LLC, NEW YORK, NY/FERN KARESH HURST
Ernie Barnes, Late Night DJ, 1980, acrylic on canvas.
©ERNIE BARNES FAMILY TRUST/COLLECTION TED LANGE, CALIFORNIA
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jazz, 1986, acrylic, oil pastel, and collage on wood.
©2015 THE ESTATE OF JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT AND VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/COURTESY GALLERY ENRICO NAVARRA/PRIVATE COLLECTION, PARIS
Marlene Dumas, Josephine (not tonight), 1997, ink wash and watercolor on paper.
PETER COX/©MARLENE DUMAS/COURTESY ZENO X GALLERY, ANTWERP/PRIVATE COLLECTION
Rashid Johnson, Compared to What, 2015, mirrored tiles, black soap, wax, vinyl, book, and shea butter.
MARTIN PARSEKIAN/COURTESY THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH
Installation view of 'I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920,' 2015, showing Chris Martin's Jam Session (2013).
PHOTO: DIRK WILHELMY, STUTTGART; ART: COURTESY CHRIS MARTIN AND KOW BERLIN
Installation view of 'I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920,' 2015, showing Frank Stella's Hyena Stomp (1962).
PHOTO: DIRK WILHELMY, STUTTGART; ART: ©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/TATE, LONDON
Installation view of 'I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920,' 2015.
PHOTO: DIRK WILHELMY, STUTTGART; ART: LEFT: ©THE ESTATE OF NORMAN LEWIS/COURTESY MICHAEL ROSENFELD GALLEY LLC, NEW YORK, NY; CENTER: ©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/FERN KARESH HURST; RIGHT: ©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/HESSISCHES LANDESMUSEUM, DARMSTADT
Installation view of 'I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920,' 2015, showing, on center wall, Henri Matisse's Jazz (1947).
PHOTO: DIRK WILHELMY, STUTTGART; ART: CENTER WALL: ©2015 SUCCESSION HENRI MATISSE/VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/C. CHARALABIDIS
Installation view of 'I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920,' 2015.
PHOTO: DIRK WILHELMY, STUTTGART; ART: FOREGROUND: ALBERTINA, VIENNA; LEFT: ©KARA WALKER; CENTER: ©MARLENE DUMAS/COURTESY ZENO X GALLERY, ANTWERP; RIGHT: ©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/MUSEUM FÜR KUNST UND GEWERBE, HAMBURG
Installation view of 'I Got Rhythm: Art and Jazz since 1920,' 2015.
PHOTO: DIRK WILHELMY, STUTTGART; ART: LEFT: KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN, DÜSSELDORF; CENTER: ©2015 VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/COURTESY KUNSTHANDEL MARION GRCIC-ZIERSCH; RIGHT: ©2015 SUCCESSION HENRI MATISSE/VG BILD-KUNST, BONN/C. CHARALABIDIS