Highlighting the dynamic period between the world wars, Modern America 1917-1944 features a select group of paintings and watercolors by Oscar Bluemner, Charles Burchfield, Arthur Dove, Marsden Hartley, Walt Kuhn, Reginald Marsh, and John Marin. Not only were the interwar decades pivotal to the development of American modernism, which had emerged earlier in the century, but they also witnessed an updated concern with realism, charged with a more modern focus on, or at least an allusion to, the pressing social issues of the day.