Even the title of his biographical essays on the major modernists, "Golden Codgers" - the phrase is from Yeats - reflected his affection for the writers to whom he devoted his life.

As with the other major Mexican modernists, indigenous peoples were the principal subjects in the mature works of Ramos Martínez.

(His personal art collection at the time of his death included works by Alfred Maurer, Marsden Hartley, and Joseph Stella as well as major European modernists like Cézanne and Brancusi.)

Other major Islamic modernists included Mahmud Tarzi of Afghanistan, Chiragh Ali of India, Achmad Dachlan of Java, and Wang Jingshai of China.

As to the first: "The Montreal Group is recognized chiefly for the early writings of its poets who later established themselves among the major Canadian modernists of the 20th century."

Vibrant, summery paintings made in Provincetown, Mass., by three major modernists.

While a little on the dry side, this exhibition effectively encapsulates the careers of four major German modernists, layering their sensibilities like a sandwich and demonstrating the singular uses that each artist found for Cubism.

In a mezzanine gallery in its 20th-century wing, the Metropolitan Museum of Art has installed "Arthur Dove: Nature Abstracted," a small exhibition of 30 works, many of them on paper, by one of America's major early modernists.