Considered one of the first Americans to adopt French Fauvism and one of the most versatile American Modernists, Alfred H. Maurer (1868–1932) tirelessly pushed the boundaries of artistic expression throughout his career. This exhibition features 65 of Maurer’s most accomplished works, highlighting the artist’s singular contributions to American painting in the early twentieth century. Maurer spent nearly 17 years in Paris, where he was introduced to French avant-garde art through his friendships with major collectors, dealers, and artists. Throughout his long career he maintained a steady interest in certain themes and in formal experimentation with color, form, and abstraction. The exhibition surveyed Maurer’s career from fin-de-siècle figure paintings, scenes of contemporary leisure, Fauvist works, landscapes and florals, heads and figures, and still lifes, to late Cubist abstractions. The diversity and virtuosity of the works illustrated the extent to which Maurer was a formidable creative force in expanding the potential for artistic expression in American art.