Picasso at the MoMA, Brattleboro's Literary History, and the Great Migration

More from the Fall 2022 issue of Humanities magazine

In this issue, Hugh Eakin revisits Picasso's landmark 1939 show, Sarah Stewart Taylor reflects on the rich literary history of Brattleboro, Vermont, and artists reimagine the Great Migration.   In 1939, as war raged in Europe, the Museum of Modern Art opened its first Picasso show. Dazzling audiences, the exhibition culminated with one arresting look at human brutality: Guernica. This excerpt from Hugh Eakin's NEH-funded book, Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America, takes a closer look at the watershed exhibition.   Harriet Beecher Stowe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow are just a couple of the writers drawn to Brattleboro, Vermont, where an NEH-supported project is bringing to light the town's community of wordsmiths. In this essay, Sarah Stewart Taylor takes readers along the Brattleboro Words Trail, musing on the poets and writers who found inspiration in the city.   Between 1910 and 1970, approximately six million Black people moved out of the American South, a mass exodus famously captured in Jacob Lawrence's The Migration Series. Now a new generation of artists is taking up the story. Their work, on view this winter at the Baltimore Museum of Art, explores the "possibilities of creating something anew."

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