Klee and America Menil Publications A chronology with photo-documentation and

A chronology with photo-documentation and known participants details for the first time all Tirs shooting events in Europe and the United States

David Breslin is the curator and director of the collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art

former director of the Menil Collection

College Station

Klee and America Menil Publications A chronology with photo-documentation andKlee and America accompanies the first large scale exhibition of Paul Klees (18791940) work to take place in the United States in almost two decades. Despite his recent low profile in the country, the work of the German born artist has a long history of enthusiastic reception in the United States, especially during the 1930s and 1940s. By the early 1920s, Klee was one of the leading figures within the European modernist movement, often mentioned