Impressionist France
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Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet
Simon Kelly and April M. Watson; With essays by Neil McWilliam and Maura Coughlin
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Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography flourished within the arts in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era, painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialized or as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining and illustrating in particular the works of key artists such as Édouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Frères, Édouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Nègre, and Camille Pissarro. This ambitious premise focuses on the whole of France, exploring the relationship between landscape art and the notion of French nationhood across the country’s varied and spectacular landscapes in seven geographical sections and four scholarly essays, which provide new information regarding the production and impact of French Impressionism.
Distributed for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Museum of Art
Exhibition Schedule:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
(10/19/13-02/09/14)
Saint Louis Art Museum
(03/16/14–07/06/14)
Simon Kelly is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. April M. Watson is associate curator, photography, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
EXHIBITION SCHEDULE
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
(10/19/13-02/09/14)
Saint Louis Art Museum
(03/16/14–07/06/14)
‘This beautifully produced volume is an excellent corpus of more academic landscape paintings (as well as photographs) from American collections that give a context to the achievements of Impressionism.’—Adrian Lewis, Cassone
Publication Date: November 26, 2013
Publishing Partner: Distributed for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Museum of Art
359 color illus.
