Childe Hassam – Gathering Flowers in a French Garden, 1888
Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings at the Newark Art Museum
Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum, a forty-two painting exhibition featuring masterworks by Claude Monet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, George Inness and Childe Hassam
September 17th 2008 – January 4th 2009
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Impressionism flourished in nineteenth-centuryFrance and the United States as one of the most powerful forms of artistic expression andcontinues to draw the appreciation and admiration of art lovers throughout the world
With the opening on September 17 of Paths to Impressionism: French and AmericanLandscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum, a forty-two painting exhibitionfeaturing masterworks by Claude Monet, Jean-Baptiste-Camille Corot, George Innessand Childe Hassam, The Newark Museum provides an opportunity to examine one of themost popular styles in the history of art. When combined with visits to the Museum’spermanent Picturing America galleries and its concurrent exhibition, Small but Sublime:Intimate Views by Durand, Bierstadt and Inness, visitors are treated to a compellingoverview of the century’s major developments in landscape painting.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Impressionism had become the avant-garde paintingstyle in America. According to The Newark Museum Director Mary Sue Price, “both theWorcester Art Museum and The Newark Museum built impressive collections ofnineteenth-century landscape paintings by being in the forefront of acquiring Americanart.”
“The landscapes exhibited in Worcester’s Paths to Impressionism as well as those in TheNewark Museum’s Picturing America and Small but Sublime provide a remarkablesurvey of the dramatic changes in the interpretation of nature that occurred during thenineteenth century,” Price said.
“The inspiring masterworks in Paths to Impressionism convey artists’ personal responseto their environment,” commented Dr. Holly Pyne Connor, Curator of 19th-CenturyAmerican Art at The Newark Museum. “In these beautiful paintings, nature istransformed into great art.”
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