Showing There Are No Words: Si Lewen’s Parade, at The Metropolitan Museum of Art

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The Parade, ca. 1950
The Parade, ca. 1950. Si Lewen (American 1918–2016). The Parade (detail), ca. 1950. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Purchase, Estate of Louise Graham, Lila Acheson Wallace and Mark Fisch and Jessica Kayll Gifts, 2024. Image Courtesy the Estate of Si Lewen and James Cohan, New York.

There Are No Words: Si Lewen’s Parade

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Oct 1, 2026 – Jan 5, 2027 Upper East Side

The Parade, Lewen’s cycle of 63 drawings made after World War II, shaped by his escape from Nazi Germany and arrival at Buchenwald after liberation, from military pageantry to mourning.

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