October 17, 2003 – January 19, 2004
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Claude
Monet (1840-1926) French |
MONET AND THE AGE OF AMERICAN IMPRESIONISM will showcase stunning landscape and figure paintings created in the United States between 1890 and the early decades of the 20th century. Beginning with the Art Institute’s quintessential French Impressionist painting, Waterlilies (1903) by Claude Monet, visitors to the exhibition will experience the evolution of American Impressionism from its French origins to an aesthetic entirely American in both composition and representation.
Although distinct in its own right, American Impressionism was the most unified and closely allied movement with the French model. The exhibition will feature works by such renowned artists as Cecilia Beaux, Mary Cassatt, Sorel Emil Carlson, Thomas Wilmer Dewing, Arthur Wesley Dow, John Joseph Enneking, and Childe Hassam, from the Dicke Collection as well as The Dayton Art Institute. The increased participation of women artists in late 19th and early 20th century American art will be explored along with the influence of American industrialization on the content and aesthetic character of American Impressionism.
Admission includes THE GLASS OF LOUIS COMFORT TIFFANY and ANSEL ADAMS AND THE AMERICAN LANDSCAPE .