An International Episode: Millet, Monet and their North American Counterparts
Subtitle: The Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, Tennessee, November 21, 1982--December 23, 1982; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois, January 8--February 13, 1983; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts, March 3--April 30, 1983
By: text by Laura L. Meixner
Contributors: Organized by The Dixon Gallery and Gardens with subsequent exhibition at Terra Museum of American Art and Worcester Art Museum
Publisher: Dixon Gallery and Gardens; [Dixon Gallery and Gardens]
Published: 1982
Place of publication: Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
Subjects: Millet, Jean François, 1814-1875 -- Influence -- Exhibitions.; Monet, Claude, 1840-1926 -- Influence -- Exhibitions.; Painting, American -- 19th century -- Exhibitions.; Barbizon school -- Influence -- Exhibitions.; Artist colonies -- France -- Giverny -- Influence -- Exhibitions.
Genres: Exhibitions.
First sentence: (Introduction)  "In 1893 William Dean Howells published The Coast of Bohemia, a novel probing the dilemma of Ludlow, an American artist seeking an elusive reconciliation of foreign training and native subject matter."
Description: "The...exhibition addresses (the) issue of dual commitment, to French avant garde technique and American traditional imagery, as it manifested itself among certain American artists who worked with Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) and Claude Monet (1840-1926) at Barbizon and Giverny."  (from the catalog's introduction)

Seventy works (62 oil on canvas, 8 drawings) by the following artists were included in the exhibition: Millet; William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879); Wyatt Eaton (Canadian, 1849-1896); Monet; John Leslie Breck (American, 1860-1899); Theodore Wendel (American, 1859-1932; Willard Leroy Metcalf (American, 1853-1925); Theodore Robinson (American, 1852-1896); Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848-1933); Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939); Theodore E. Butler (American, 1876-1894).

Catalog cover is Theodore Robinson's "Gathering Plums" (1891, 22 x 18 Oil on canvas, signed/dated, from the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art).

Exhibition and catalog were made possible by generous grants from the National Bank of Commerce, Memphis, Tennessee, and Schering-Plough Corporation.
Notes: Lenders to the exhibition: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Berry-Hill Galleries, Inc., New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam; Jeffrey R. Brown Fine Arts, North Amherst, Massachusetts; The Butler Institute of Fine Arts, North Amherst, Massachusetts; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh; Mr. & Mrs. Benton Case, Jr., Wayzata, Minnesota; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia; Cincinnati Art Museum; Mr. & Mrs. Willard G. Clark, Hanford, California; Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England; Georgia Museum of Art, Univ. of Georgia, Athens; Mr. & Mrs. Norman Gilfenbain, Courtesy of Deville, Inc., Los Angeles; Mr. J. Greenzaid, Washington, D.C.; Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee; Ms. Deborah Kilmer Kadel, Lincoln, Nebraska; Mr. Jacob G. Kilmer; Mr. Matthew Kilmer, Ormond Beach, Florida; Mr. & Mrs. Nicholas Kilmer, New Bedford, Massachusetts; Musee de Beaux Arts, Lille; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Charles H. MacNider Museum, Mason City, Iowa; Amherst College, Mead Art Museum, Massachusetts; Univ. of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, Massachusetts; Musee d'Orsay, Galerie du Jeu de Paume, Paris; Martin & Anne Peretz, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Phoenix Art Museum; Power Corporation of Canada, Montreal; The Art Museum, Princeton Univ.; Randolph-Macon Woman's College Art Gallery, Lynchburg, Virginia; Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence; Sheldon Memorial Art Gaallery, Univ. of Nebraska, Lincoln; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, Massachusetts; Warren P. Snyder, Courtesy of R.H. Love Galleries, Inc., Chicago; Blake & Barbara Tartt, Houston, Texas; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, Illinois; The Toledo Museum of Art; Tweed Museum of Art, Univ. of Minnesota, Duluth; Mr. & Mrs. Abbot W. Vose, Boston; Private Collection, Courtesy of Vose Galleries, Boston, Anonymous lenders
Table of contents: title: Introduction
pagenum: 9; title: Jean-Francois Millet and his American Proteges
pagenum: 11; title: The "Millet Myth" and the American Public
pagenum: 68; title: Catalogue Entries and Reproductions (Millet et al)
pagenum: 97; title: Claude Monet and the American Coterie at Giverny
pagenum: 123; title: Catalogue Entries and Reproductions (Monet et al)
pagenum: 168; title: Selected Bibliography
pagenum: 205