Ashmolean Museum to showcase famous US artists 'unknown' in UK

Exhibition comprises ‘works of great power’ from household American names barely known beyond its shoresAn exhibition of artists whose works have rarely or never been seen outside the US, dubbed “cool” in the 1920 and 30s when the word signified admirably restrained rather than achingly hip, will open next year at the Ashmolean Museum in Oxford.Seventeen of of the 83 works have never left the US before, a further 21 have never been seen in the UK, and others haven’t