Title: American impressionism
First published: 1997
Description: This major exhibition featured exquisite paintings, watercolors and pastels by America's most celebrated Impressionists, including Frank Benson, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, John Singer Sargent and Edmund C. Tarbell. Smaller more intimate prints, drawings and watercolors which reveal contemplative aspects of the creative personalities of such important Impressionists as Cassatt, Hassam and Prendergast.This exhibition complimented the museum's exhibition of American Impressionist paintings. This show was a rare opportunity to view these delicate works on paper, including America's best preserved set of Mary Cassatt's color prints.
Subjects: Painting, American, Impressionism (Art), Exhibitions, American Painting
Places: United States
Time periods: 19th century, 20th century
LC classification: ND210.5.I4 B75 1997