Floral works are a highlight in the telling of The Whitney's collection transition from focusing on realism to more abstraction in its holdings of early American Modernism. The Whitney Museum of American Art now is showing At the Dawn of a New Age: Early Twentieth-Century American Modernism, an exhibition of over sixty works by more than forty-five artists that highlights the complexity of American art produced between 1900 and 1930. The exhibition showcases how American artists responded .