With over 130 works from American and European collections, as well as from the Fundació Joan Miró, this exhibition explores the intergenerational dialogue between Joan Miró and artists such as Louise Bourgeois, Helen Frankenthaler, Lee Krasner, Arshile Gorky, Robert Motherwell, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, and Alice Trumbull Mason.
At its core, the exhibition centers on Miró's major retrospectives in New York (1941 and 1959) and his seven visits to the U.S. between 1947 and 1968, which significantly expanded his transatlantic connections.
By highlighting the creative exchanges that shaped 20th-century art, the exhibition repositions Miró within art history — shifting the narrative from France to the United States as a key influence on his artistic development. It also underscores the vital role of female artists in redefining contemporary art through abstraction, gestural painting, and action painting — whether as pioneers or sources of inspiration.
Curators: Marko Daniel, Matthew Gale and Dolors Rodríguez Roig from Fundació Joan Miró, in collaboration with Elsa Smithgall from The Phillips Collection.
