American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection
Organized by The Phillips Collection, Washington D.C.
On display at The Society of the Four Arts March 14, 2009 to April 15, 2009
Hours: Monday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; Sunday 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Admission is $5; members and children15 and under admitted free. For additional details, call (561) 655-7226.
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March 28: Gallery Talk
Dr. Susan Behrends Frank, Associate Curator for Research, "A Personal Vision: Collecting American Impressionism, 1915-25"
11 a.m. • Gallery talks are free with gallery admission. • The Walter S. Gubelmann Auditorium• (561) 655-7226
The final exhibit of the season will showcase the works of celebrated American artists such as Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir. American Impressionism: Paintings from the Phillips Collection, will showcases more than 65 works from the golden age of American impressionism (ca.1880-1920), and will run from March 14 to April 15, 2009.
“Over the course of a decade, from 1912 to 1922, Duncan Phillips assembled an impressive collection of American impressionist paintings,” says Jay Gates, director of The Phillips Collection. “They formed the very bedrock of the museum and have shaped the development of the collection ever since.”
Highlights of the exhibition include a range of work by many of the key players of the American Impressionist movement. Focusing largely on landscape painting, American Impressionism features some of the museum’s most treasured paintings. Many were painted in Connecticut, New Hampshire, New York, eastern Pennsylvania, and Massachusetts.
The exhibition also showcases the work of a less well known but equally extraordinary artist, Allen Tucker. Considered by his colleagues to be the “American van Gogh” because of his vigorous and animated brushwork, Tucker captured the attention of Phillips who sought to add an original van Gogh to his growing collection of modern art during this period.
A 192-page book with 120 color illustrations accompanies the exhibition. American Impressionists: Painters of Light and the Modern Landscape, co-published by The Phillips Collection and Rizzoli International Publications, features essays by William H. Gerdts, the leading authority on American impressionism, and Phillips exhibition curator Susan Behrends Frank. The softcover book will be available at the Four Arts gallery reception desk for $32.95, and the hardcover will be available in bookstores nationwide for $45.
The exhibition and national tour of American Impressionism are made possible by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA), as part of the American Masterpieces: Three Centuries of Artistic Genius program. Additional support for the exhibition is provided by the Phillips Contemporaries and Lockheed Martin, the 2006-2007 season sponsor of The Phillips Collection.
