“Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism” exhibition at the Akron Art Museum

AKRON, OH.- Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism, on view at the Akron Art MuseumOctober 29, 2011 – February 5, 2012, offers a broad survey of landscape painting as practiced by leading French artists from Gustave Courbet to Claude Monet and their most significant American followers including Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. This exquisite exhibition of more than fifty paintings will include many of the finest examples of French and American impressionist landscapes from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum as [...]

Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg Presents Exhibition of American Impressionist Paintings

ST. PETERSBURG, FL.- Transcending Vision: American Impressionism 1870-1940 from the Bank of America Collection features more than 100 paintings, drawings, and prints by more than 70 artists, including some of America’s most important. This spectacular exhibition, on view from August 28, 2010-January 9, 2011, is mainly comprised of oil paintings and encompasses the Hudson River School, American Impressionism, and a few works on the cusp of Modernism. It focuses on one of the most fertile periods in American art and [...]

Florence Griswold Museum Announces Major Art Acquisition

OLD LYME, CT.- One of the highlights of the current exhibition Connecticut Treasures: Works from Private Collections is no longer privately held. The painting – a magnificent view of mountain laurel by the American Impressionist Willard Metcalf (1858-1925) – recently became one of the most significant collection additions the Florence Griswold Museum has made in its history. It makes its debut in Connecticut Treasures as an example of how a work of art can, over generations, be held privately before [...]