Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art
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Haunted House by Morris Kantor, 1930.
—The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1931.707
Haunted House by Morris Kantor, 1930.
—The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, Mr. and Mrs. Frank G. Logan Purchase Prize Fund, 1931.707
This traveling exhibition explores the numerous ways in which artists in the United States have made sense of their own experiences of the paranormal and the supernatural, developing a rich visual culture of the intangible. The artwork displayed in Supernatural America: The Paranormal in American Art explores how ghosts and paranormal beings are an inescapable part of the history of America and our daily life. Supernatural beings permeate our national identity through our literature, entertainment, and art, and artists have been integral to visualizing ghosts and embracing the mysterious.
The NEH-supported exhibition Supernatural America traveled to the Toledo Museum of Art, the Speed Museum of Art, and the Minneapolis Institute of Art. Read reviews in the St. Paul Pioneer Press, and the Louisville Courier-Journal.