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Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism at the Akron Art Museum

Monet - Rising Tide at Pourville

Clade Monet
Rising Tide at Pourville (1882)

Hassam - Bedford Hills

Childe Hassam
Bedford Hills (1908)

Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism The Akron Art Museum presents ‘Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism’, an exhibition of landscape painting by French artists from Courbet to Monet and their American followers -including Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent.

October 29, 2011 – February 5, 2012

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Source: Akron Art Museum / theartwolf.com

The exhibition includes more than fifty French and American impressionist landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum and the Akron Art Museum. “Featuring works from the 1850s through the 1920s, [Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism] allows us to present not only examples of high impressionism but also the wide range of stylistic developments in landscape painting that preceded and followed the impressionist movement“, explains Ellen Rudolph, Curator of Exhibitions at the Akron Art Museum.

French works
Two of the most important precursors of Impressionism -Charles-François Daubigny and Gustave Courbet- are represented in “Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism” with “The River Seine at Mantes” (1856) and “Isolated Rock” (1862). These artists from the Barbizon school “set the stage for impressionism’s dramatic assault on officially-sanctioned painting styles“, as the museum says in a press release. The exhibition includes three works by Claude Monet: “Rising Tide at Pourville” (1882), “Vernon in the Sun” (1894) and “The Islets at Port-Villez” (1897).

American works
In the late 19th century, many Americans painters typically trained at fine arts academies in Paris. One of these artists was Theodore Robinson, who “established a warm friendship with Monet over the course of several summers spent in Giverny“. Robinson is represented in the exhibition by “The Watering Pots” (1890) and “La Roche Guyon” (1891). Other American highlights in “Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism” include Childe Hassam’s “Bedford Hills” (1908) and John Twachtman’s “The Winding Brook” (1887-1900).

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