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Director’s Circle members are invited to a special preview of Impressionism and Modernity: French and American Painting. Enjoy drinks and passed hors d’oeuvres before having the first opportunity to view Telfair’s excellent American Impressionist paintings alongside key works from the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.

Guests are also invited to attend a dedicated lecture with Mary Morton at 6:15 p.m. in the Auditorium.

Mary Morton, head of French paintings at the National Gallery of Art, is a leading curator and scholar of 19th-century European art who has organized major international exhibitions and published extensively on artists such as Cézanne, Renoir, and Caillebotte.

 

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Impressionism and Modernity: French and American Painting

Jepson Center
In celebration of Telfair Museums’ 140th anniversary, Impressionism and Modernity: French and American Painting brings together Telfair’s prominent collection of Impressionist art with key counterparts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, including paintings by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Alfred Sisley (1839–99) Vincent van Gogh (1853–90), among others. Through a series of works that attest to themes of modern life, leisure, and spectacle, the modern city, and nostalgia for the natural landscape in a rapidly changing world, this exhibition aims to show how Impressionism originated and developed with the introduction of modern art to the United States and to American institutions.
exhibition

Impressionism and Modernity: French and American Painting

Jepson Center
In celebration of Telfair Museums’ 140th anniversary, Impressionism and Modernity: French and American Painting brings together Telfair’s prominent collection of Impressionist art with key counterparts from the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C, including paintings by Edgar Degas (1834–1917), Alfred Sisley (1839–99) Vincent van Gogh (1853–90), among others. Through a series of works that attest to themes of modern life, leisure, and spectacle, the modern city, and nostalgia for the natural landscape in a rapidly changing world, this exhibition aims to show how Impressionism originated and developed with the introduction of modern art to the United States and to American institutions.
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