Comprised of approximately 100 paintings, many of which are world famous and have never before been hung together, Americans in Paris, 1860-1900 explores those heady decades when United States artists flocked to France to study, absorb and expand upon their painting techniques. Paris, in turn, educated, nurtured, promoted and even became home to a select group of American expatriates. It was a symbiotic relationship that permanently changed the face of American art going forward.
Here we have a exceptional selection of works from this internationally organized traveling exhibition. Prominently featured artists James Abbott Mc Neill Whistler (1834-1903), Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and Childe Hassam (1859-1935) are joined by a host of other perennial favorites in a visual feast of 47 portraits, interiors and scapes from land, sea and city.
You may also read a full review of the exhibition, as seen at its National Gallery, London stop.
- The Tea (Le Thé), ca. 1880© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Used with permission
- Woman with a Pearl Necklace in a Loge, 1879© Philadelphia Museum of Art; Used with permission
- Portrait of Miss Dora Wheeler, 1883© The Cleveland Museum of Art
- Afternoon in the Cluny Garden, 1889© Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; Used with permission
- In the Luxembourg Garden, 1889© Terra Foundation for American Art; Used with permission
- The Cello Player, 1896© Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; Used with permission
- The Crucifixion, 1880© Philadelphia Museum of Art; Used with permission
- Self Portrait, 1885© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Used with permission
- Allies Day May 1917, 1917© National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Used with permission
- April Showers, Champs Elysées, Paris, 1888© Joslyn Art Museum; Used with permission
- At the Florist, 1889© Chrysler Museum of Art; Used with permission
- A Summer Night, 1890© Musée d'Orsay, Paris; Used with permission
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