Jun 20, 2012 · Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas isn’t a terribly exciting art exhibition, but it is deeply fascinating as a reflection on the way culture, business, and boosterism intermingle in...

In 1952, expatriate German artist George Grosz was invited to Dallas by Leon Harris, Jr., the young vice president of the A. Harris & Company department store. Harris commissioned Grosz to create for the store a series of paintings illustrating the …

Catalog from the art exhibition "George Grosz: Impressions of Dallas," October 4–November, 1952, at the Dallas Museum of Fine Arts in Dallas, Texas. Includes: list of paintings, selected images, biographical note.

May 20, 2012 · A fourth oil painting, a downtown skyline surrounded by prairies, is truly locale-specific. An enlarged photograph showed that George Grosz did observe the Dallas skyline from afar.

May 24, 2012 · Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas conveys a prominent outsider’s dreamy Texas metropolis, capturing the city’s booming energy at a time of racial segregation and blatant sexism, and bittersweet mid-century innocence.

Jul 18, 2012 · Carol Roark, Interim Executive Director, Preservation Dallas, talks about the Dallas of the 1950s. In conjunction with the exhibition Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas , May 20–August 19, 2012.

May 29, 2012 · The Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas exhibition highlights a range of Grosz’s work over a lifetime, with graphic works, paintings, and contextual photographs. Recently opened at the DMA, this special exhibition features twenty paintings Grosz created of our very own home: Dallas, Texas.

May 25, 2012 · George Grosz would seem the very last artist to celebrate 1950s Dallas. Associated with early 20th-century dada and “the new objectivity” — it was anything but — he’s mainly remembered for...

Jun 12, 2012 · How did George Grosz, the expatriate German Dadaist and satirist end up in Dallas in 1952 and how did the work he created as a result of his visit inform his international career as an artist and documentarian of 20th Century life?

May 18, 2012 · "Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz in Dallas," a series of works by the German Dadaist George Grosz, opens Sunday at the Dallas Museum of Art. The series captures everything from the...