Thomas Hart Benton, Ploughing it Under, 1943, reworked 1964; oil on canvas, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR. 2006.73 Courtesy the Mint Museum

The Mint Museum Uptown in Charlotte feels like the perfect location for a retrospective honoring early 20th-century artists from the American South—the institution, North Carolina’s first art museum, was established in 1936 and today boasts one of the largest art collections in the Southeast. “Southern/Modern: Rediscovering Southern Art From the First Half of the Twentieth Century” doesn’t pull exclusively from that collection, however. It’s a collaborative traveling exhibition that kicked off at the Georgia Museum of Art before moving to the Frist Art Museum in Nashville and then Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Arkansas before landing in Charlotte this past October.

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“Southern/Modern” is an ode to those American artists who worked in states below the Mason-Dixon line, to the Mississippi River in the west and even artists who worked outside of the South but made art inspired by their visits to the region. Curators Jonathan Stuhlman and Martha Severens have taken an expansive approach and key themes in........

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