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past exhibitions
Childe Hassam
American1959 – 1935
Poppies on the Isles of Shoals
oil on canvas, 1890
18 x 21 15/16
Brooklyn Museum, Gift of Mary Pratt Barringer and Richardson Pratt, Jr., in memory of Richardson and Laura Pratt
2.6.10–4.18.10
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism:
Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum
Contemporary & Dow Galleries
Sponsored by
The Whiting Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Founders Society
Peter Thompson & Kathy Kallick
Susie Thompson
This exhibition includes many of the finest examples of mid-nineteenth through early twentieth-century French and American landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The 38 paintings presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent.
The exhibition includes many American painters who, beginning at mid-century, followed in the footsteps of the French archetypes seeking to improve their skills and find inspiration in Paris and its environs, attending French art academies and frequenting the painting locations made famous by their Barbizon and Impressionist predecessors. Some of the Americans had direct contact with leading French landscape painters, sharing landscape sites or seeking informal guidance from admired mentors. The majority of the American paintings on display depict American locales: beaches, factories, tenements, and notable subjects such as Central Park in works distinguished by brilliant colors and lively, broken brushwork. Includes works by William Glackens, Julian Alden Weir, and Willard Leroy Metcalf.
Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism:
Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum
Contemporary & Dow Galleries
Sponsored by
The Whiting Foundation
Charles Stewart Mott Foundation
Founders Society
Peter Thompson & Kathy Kallick
Susie Thompson
This exhibition includes many of the finest examples of mid-nineteenth through early twentieth-century French and American landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. The 38 paintings presented offer a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by such leading French artists as Gustave Courbet and Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Frederick Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent.
The exhibition includes many American painters who, beginning at mid-century, followed in the footsteps of the French archetypes seeking to improve their skills and find inspiration in Paris and its environs, attending French art academies and frequenting the painting locations made famous by their Barbizon and Impressionist predecessors. Some of the Americans had direct contact with leading French landscape painters, sharing landscape sites or seeking informal guidance from admired mentors. The majority of the American paintings on display depict American locales: beaches, factories, tenements, and notable subjects such as Central Park in works distinguished by brilliant colors and lively, broken brushwork. Includes works by William Glackens, Julian Alden Weir, and Willard Leroy Metcalf.
