The exhibition will consist of about 35 works of art including pictures by British artist Gwen John (1876-1939) and Bloomsbury Group founders Vanessa Bell (1879-1960) and Duncan Grant (1885-1978) as well as works by Bell’s son the potter Quentin Bell (1910-1996) and granddaughter, the designer Cressida Bell (born 1959). Cecil Beaton (1904-1980), Percy Wyndham Lewis (1882-1957), William Nicholson (1872-1949) and Camden Group member Henry Lamb (1883-1960) will be represented.

Vintage photographs of fruits, vegetables and flowers by Charles Jones (1866-1959) and photomicrographs of snowflakes by Wilson A. Bentley (1865-1931) will also be on exhibition.

Also included will be works on paper by American artists Mark Tobey (1890-1976) and Bill Traylor (1854-1949); drawings by Ashcan artists Robert Henri (1865-1929) and Everett Shinn (1873-1953); and a painting on glass by Charles Prendergast (1863-1948). There will be paintings and works on paper by contemporary American artists Robert Kulicke (1924-2007), David Levine (born 1926), Robert Andrew Parker (born 1927), Seymour Remenick (1923-1999) and Stuart Shils (born 1954); weavings by Sheila Hicks (born 1934); collages by Nicol Allan (born 1931); and bronze plaques by Harry Roseman (born 1945).

Of particular note are works by Lennart Anderson (born 1928), Aaron A. Shikler (born 1922) and Albert York (born 1928). In the early 1960s Anderson did a series of paintings based on the photographs of Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904); one such painting Figures from Muybridge will be included in this exhibition. Shikler was commissioned by The White House to paint the official portrait of President John F. Kennedy, a portrait for which Shikler is well known; on view will be the only study for that portrait. Finally, a remarkable watercolor by York, Two Women with Umbrella, will be on exhibit for the first time since the late 1960s.