The Joan Mir Foundation presentis American Modern, an exhibition comisioned by Sarah Newman and Sarah Cash, curators at the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington. The ehibition contains over 100 works produced by American artists since the end of the nineteenth century. From landscape painters and the artists working under the influence of Paris, to Abstract Expressionism and even photography - which has an important position in the Corcoran Gallery's collection - the exhibition demonstrates the development of modern art in the United States up to the present day. The artists represented include George Bellows, John Singer Sargent, Arthur Davies, Marsden Hartley, Joseph Cornell, Thomas Hart Benton, John Sloan, Edward Hopper, Milton Avery, Mark Rothko, Willem de Kooning, Cy Twombly, Richard Diebenkorn, Martin Puryear and Robert Mangold.