Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism traces the development of plein air (at the scene or, literally, "full arena") painting from its inception in mid-nineteenth-century France, through the heyday of French Impressionism to its migration to U.S. shores via the minds and palettes of American painters returning home from abroad.
The exhibition has been culled from the Brooklyn Museum's own collection of French Barbizon and Impressionist landscapes, which was actively being built by Museum trustees, patrons and donors in the early twentieth century - at a time when this genre had not yet become quite so highly collectible. Some 40 paintings by French and American artists ranging from Claude Monet (1840-1926) and Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) to John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) and Childe Hassam (1859-1935) are included in this traveling exhibition. For your viewing enjoyment, here is a preview of one fourth of the show courtesy of the Brooklyn Museum.
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- The River Seine at Mantes, ca. 1856Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- A Meadow in the Bourbonnais Morning, 1876Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Pommier en Fleurs (Apple Tree in Bloom), ca. 1885Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Poppies on the Isles of Shoals, 1890Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Willimantic Thread Factory, 1893Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Les Iles à Port-Villez (The Islets at Port-Villez), 1897Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Dolce Far Niente, ca. 1907Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- The Ducal Palace in Venice, 1908Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Early Spring Afternoon - Central Park, 1911Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
- Bathing at Bellport, Long Island, 1912Image © Brooklyn Museum; Used with permission
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