Taft Museum of Art Presents Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play

Cincinnati artist Edie McKee Harper (American, 1922–2010) developed a distinctive modernist vision across a wide variety of media, including photographs, paintings, enamels, weavings, illustrations, and prints. Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play and its accompanying catalog highlight Harper’s exploration of these diverse materials through more than 100 works of art, re-examining her minimalist—and often playful—style to reveal a sophisticated artist who expanded the possibilities of mid-20th-century art and design.

The Taft’s Tamera Lenz Muente has details in today’s Spotlight. 

The Cincinnati Art Museum is running an exhibition of The Art of Charley Harper concurrently.

Click on the link below to hear an extended conversation with both curators. 

Edie McKee Harper: Modernist at Play | Taft Museum of Art

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