Flower of the Prairie: George Grosz’s “Impressions of Dallas,” 1952

In 1952 George Grosz, the German expatriate artist, was invited to Dallas by Leon Harris to produce a series of watercolor and oil paintings illustrating the landscape and society of Dallas. The exhibtion will present eighteen works from the series together with additional paintings, watercolors, and drawings by Grosz from various stages in his career, including early expressionist and anti-fascist images produced in Germany and later paintings from his New York period.