A dark work by Worpswede
painter and Rilke confidant Paula Modersohn - Becker, showing a peasant
woman slowly moving through a dark Northern German landscape, is a
rare sighting of this artist in an American institution.
Asked why he began collecting American Indian artifacts, Weisel, who has also collected postwar American art, said, pointing to a
rare «first phase» chief's blanket, «Look at this in relation to a
painter such as Barnett Newman - very simple, just a few lines - this is like an amazing painting, but made by a
woman weaving on a loom on the Great Plains, outside.»