Hans Hofmann made his first trip to the United States in 1930 at the request of a former student of the artist's Munich art school. He had been asked to serve as a guest professor for a summer session at the University of California at Berkeley, and the temporary relocation from Germany proved a liberating experience for the highly regarded teacher--and for his art. He settled here permanently two years later.

Visual inklings of that liberation can be seen in the difference between Hofman's European drawings from the late 1920s and those he made later in California ...

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