Woodmere Art Museum extends 'Group '55 and Midcentury Modernism in Philadelphia' exhibition
Sanford Greenberg, No. 24, 1955. Oil on canvas, 14 1/4 x 20 in. (Woodmere Art Museum: Museum purchase, 2014)
PHILADELPHIA, PA
.- In 1955, a group of Philadelphia painters, architects, musicians, and dancers organized a series of exhibitions and public forums across the city, presenting their work as a catalyst for vigorous public dialogue about the role of art and science in the postwar era. Group 55, as they came to be known, included architect Louis Kahn, composer George Rochberg, and artists Quita Brodhead, Michael Ciliberti, Sam Feinstein, Sam Fried, Sanford Greenberg, Raymond Hendler, Jane Piper, and Doris Staffel.