A Major Matisse Exhibition Will Focus on the Artists Work From the 1930s

The Philadelphia Museum of Art is gearing up to host a major exhibition highlighting Henri Matisse's lesser-known period of the 1930s. It's at the start of that decade when the French artist was commissioned by Albert Barnes, founder of the Barnes Foundation, to create a massive 45-foot mural dubbed The Dance (1932-33).Housed at the Barnes Foundations Main Hall, the three-part artwork would inspire Matisse back to easel painting, focusing on a series of new techniques that would be emblematic of...