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...stops on the European Grand Tour undertaken by many wealthy and cultured Americans of the time, and the young men moved in expatriate circles that included well-known cultural figures. Writers and modern-art patrons Leo Stein and his sister Gertrude, Impressionist painter Mary Cassatt, portraitist John Singer Sargent, painter John La Farge, novelist Edith Wharton and British Gothic writer Vernon Lee (the pseudonym of Violet Paget, whom novelist Henry James, himself a frequent visitor to Italy, called "the most intelligent person in Florence") all clustered in the Tuscan town...
Paris has always harbored a special allure for American expatriate writers, artists and composers. But throughout the late 19th century, a particularly high concentration of great American painters - including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt - passed through the City of Light. From Oct. 24-Jan. 18, their labors will be on display in "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 100 oil paintings by 37 mostly Impressionist painters have already wowed crowds and critics in both London and Boston. The exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into...
Paris has always harbored a special allure for American expatriate writers, artists and composers. But throughout the late 19th century, a particularly high[an error occurred while processing this directive] concentration of great American painters - including Winslow Homer, James McNeill Whistler and Mary Cassatt - passed through the City of Light. From Oct. 24-Jan. 18, their labors will be on display in "Americans in Paris, 1860-1900" at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York City. The 100 oil paintings by 37 mostly Impressionist painters have already wowed crowds and critics in both London and Boston...
...exhibit ranges from portraits to cityscapes to glimpses into the studio life. Cassatt's severe and pensive mother makes a showing in drab black dress, a prim contrast to Thomas Hovenden's slumped self-portrait (1875). But the star of the show is John Singer Sargent's notorious Madame X (1884), herself an American transplant who moved to Paris as a child, and who, like her expat painter, would always be an outsider in her adopted city.
...Cassatt was a great pastelist, and we are certainly considering acquiring one of her early pastels for our collection using the funds from this sale. But at the same time, our collections are very lacking in American Impressionism, in particular other works by other American Impressionists...