Queensland Art Gallery's upcoming exhibitionAmerican Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition
from the Met', The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.

About The American Impressionism and Realism Exhibition

The Queensland Art Gallery is the only venue in the world to show the exhibition 'American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met', curated by H. Barbara Weinberg, the Alice Pratt Brown Curator of American Paintings and Sculpture, The Metropolitan Museum of Art.

The exhibition makes available to Australian audiences, for the first time and on an unprecedented scale, a selection of 71 paintings from New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art. Included are many of the Metropolitan’s best examples in the American Impressionist and Realist traditions which have never before been displayed together and are not likely to be lent again as an ensemble.

This groundbreaking presentation features works by 34 painters, renowned and less well-known. Some of the leading figures—such as Impressionists John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and William Merritt Chase, and Realists John Sloan and William Glackens—are each represented by several of their works. ‘American Impressionism and Realism’ considers how proponents of two styles that flourished about 1900 responded to modern life and to the era’s perplexing novelties, and will invite consideration of what they embraced, what they did not, and why. Often saturated with light and colour, these paintings are always saturated with meaning.

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