What Was Built, What Was Born: Labor, Land, & the Body in 20th-Century American Art

November 10
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM

The Fralin Museum of Art

155 Rugby Rd.
Charlottesville, Virginia 44903

This exhibition examines how twentieth-century American artists visualized labor and the working class in a rapidly changing nation across painting, sculpture, and works on paper. Bringing together figurative and non-figurative works, What Was Built, What Was Born considers how work reshaped bodies, environments, and ideas of progress amid the physical and social costs of building modern American life.

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