Description

Winold Reiss in New York will be the first museum exhibition to examine the remarkable contributions of this German emigré to New York’s circles of modernist art and design, from the time of his arrival in the city on the eve of the First World War to the debut of the 1939 World’s Fair.  Perhaps best-know to date for his beautifully detailed Harlem portraits, including likenesses of the leading lights of the Harlem Renaissance, Winold Reiss (1886-1953) simultaneously practiced a distinctive and influential manner of modernist graphic design, and created some of the most notable nightclub and hotel interiors of the Jazz Age.