The Real/Surreal exhibition at the Frist examined the influence that European Surrealists like René Magritte and Salvador Dalà had on American realist painters like Edward Hopper and Andrew Wyeth. The odd mix of works from the Whitney Museum of American Art was arranged into a cohesive whole by curator Katie Delmez, revealing an overlooked 20th century dialogue between U.S. artists and their European counterparts that helped to frame modernism on this side of the Atlantic.
