Walking through the current modernism exhibit at the Milwaukee Art Museum is kind of like walking through an art history text book - except it's a lot more fun.
The exhibit, Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France, features works dating from the early 1800s to around 1950 and includes both famous and lesser-known (but equally important) artists.
Britany Salsbury is the museum's associate curator of prints and drawings, and she is responsible for bringing the exhibit to Milwaukee from the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford, United Kingdom.
"We're looking at artists who were thinking about experimentation, who were taking the sort of standards and traditions of art and rethinking them, beginning around 1800," Salsbury explains.
"Degas to Picasso: Creating Modernism in France," is open at the Milwaukee Art Museum through January 28.
