Access the advanced search to search out artists, works, publications and all the art within the collection. The Romanian Modern Art Gallery tells the story of Romanian art from the mid-nineteenth to the late twentieth century. Representative works by Theodor Aman, Nicolae Grigorescu, Ioan Andreescu, Theodor Pallady amongst others, illustrate connections with up to date French painting whereas those of M.H. Maxy, Marcel Ianco, Victor Brauner hint the contribution of Romanian art to the European avant-garde of the 1920s Museum of Art and 1930s. Early sculptures by Brancusi reveal the master’s will to break away from academic tradition and discover a means of his personal. In 1910, Albert L. Shelton, a missionary to Tibet, agreed to lend his assortment of Tibetan art to Edward N. Crane, a Newark Museum trustee, for a brief exhibition at the museum.
