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Special Exhibition Gallery - Americans in Paris, 1860-1900

Traveling February 22, 2006-January 28, 2007 to Three Venues

From Shelley Esaak, About.com


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.

Images 25-36 of 47

  1. Prisoners from the Front, 1866© The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
  2. Self Portrait of the Artist in His Studio, 1875© Yale University Art Gallery; Used with permission
  3. In the Nursery - Giverny Studio (Dans la Nursery), ca. 1896-98© Terra Foundation for American Art; Used with permission
  4. Gloucester Harbor, 1895© Mead Art Museum, Amherst College
  5. La Mère (Mother and Child), 1888© Cincinnati Art Museum; Used with permission
  6. Paul Wayland Bartlett, ca. 1890© National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; Used with permission
  7. Reading by the Shore, ca. 1883-85© Manoogian Collection; Used with permission
  8. The Wedding March, 1892© Terra Foundation for American Art; Used with permission
  9. Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood, ca. 1885© Tate Museum, London; Used with permission
  10. The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit, 1882© Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Used with permission
  11. In the Luxembourg Gardens, 1879© Philadelphia Museum of Art; Used with permission
  12. Madame X (Madame Pierre Gautreau), 1883-84Image © The Metropolitan Museum of Art; Used with permission
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