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10am–5pm: Free Admission for locals* to the Jepson Center
1-4pm: Activities and artist demonstrations 

 

Enjoy a back-to-school event with loads of activities inspired by Impressionism and Modernity: French and American Painting. Visitors of all ages can participate in art-making activities and see local “plein air” landscape artists at work. Try your hand at painting and become part of a “living painting” and have your photo taken in an Impressionist scene! The afternoon will also include music by harpist Kristin King and a meteorologist’s tour of Impressionism and Modernity.

10am – 1pm: Drop-In Studio in the Education Studios
11am: Partick Prokop will lead a “Weather Tour” of Impressionism and Modernity in our Levitt and Varnedoe Galleries.
1pm – 4pm: Plein air landscape painters, Mike Mills and Lori Keith Robinson will give painting demonstrations in the atrium.
1pm – 4pm: An “Impressionist Photo Station” will be on the 3rd Floor Landing.
2pm – 4pm: Harpist, Kristin King will be playing on the 2nd Floor Landing.
2pm – WSAV Chief Meteorologist Scott Roberts will lead a “Weather Tour” of Impressionism and Modernity.

Free admission all day for local residents including Chatham, Effingham, Bryan, Liberty, Bulloch, Jasper, and Beaufort Counties. Investment provided by the City of Savannah. 

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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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