Two exhibitions
dal 21/2/2006 al 20/5/2006
Segnalato da
21/2/2006
Two exhibitions
The National Gallery, London
Mary Cassatt: the exhibition includes prints from all stages of Cassatt's career, all from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, amongst them one of the finest extant editions of the colour prints, given as part of the Drummond Bequest. 1860-1900: the show will look at why American artists were drawn to Paris, what they produced there and how their art changed.
Mary Cassatt
Prints
Mary Cassatt was the only American painter to exhibit with the French Impressionists.
Born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania, in 1884, she first travelled to Europe to study painting at the age of 21. In 1877 Edgar Degas, who considered that she had 'infinite talent', invited her to exhibit with the Impressionists.
Two years later, Cassatt joined Degas and her fellow Impressionist Camille Pissarro in contributing to a journal of original prints. This marked the beginning of Cassatt's desire to make prints alongside her paintings. In 1890 a large display of Japanese art profoundly affected her, and she produced ten colour prints, described by Pissarro as 'rare and exquisite works'.
This exhibition includes prints from all stages of Cassatt's career, all from the collection of the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, amongst them one of the finest extant editions of the colour prints, given as part of the Drummond Bequest.
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22 February - 7 May 2006
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Americans in Paris
1860 - 1900
Paris was the centre of the art world in the 19th century, and a magnet for American art students and artists, eager to experience the cosmopolitan delights of the city and to steep themselves in its artistic atmosphere.
For the first time in Britain, this exhibition will look at why American artists were drawn to Paris, what they produced there, and how their art changed.
The exhibition includes well-known artists - James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt - and others who will largely be unknown to audiences here, including Cecilia Beaux, Elizabeth Nourse and Theodore Robinson.
Highlights include Whistler's 'White Girl' from the National Gallery of Art, Washington DC, Sargent's astonishing painting of the daughters of Edward Darley Boit, from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and his notorious 'Madame X' from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
'Americans in Paris 1860 - 1900' is organised by the National Gallery, London and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, in association with The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
22 February - 21 May 2006
National Gallery
Trafalgar Square - London