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Dear ArtConversation Members,

This exhibit is listed in Scout Report.
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Ame...aris/index.asp
Exhibit runs through January 28 at the Met.

11. Americans in Paris, 1860-1900 [Macromedia Flash Player]
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/Ame...aris/index.asp

Several decades before Ernest Hemingway came to Paris to spend some quality
time with Gertrude Stein near the Jardin de Luxembourg; there were a
multitude of other American artists inspired by the City of Lights. Paris
was, without a doubt, the art capital of the 19th century, and as Henry
James remarked in 1887 "when to-day we look for 'American art' we find it
mainly in Paris." Staff members at The Metropolitan Museum of Art feel the
same way, and they have organized this lovely online exhibit to complement a
fine in situ exhibit on the visual arts produced by artists such as Mary
Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, and John Singer Sargent during their time there.
Visitors can make their way through all eight galleries, and they can also
use a zoom feature to pick up on various levels of detail within each work.
[KMG - review by Max Grinnell]

- copyright Scout Report 2006 http://scout.wisc.edu/

From the Met website:

In the late 19th century, American artists by the hundreds—including such luminaries as James McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Thomas Eakins, and Winslow Homer—were irresistibly drawn to Paris, the world’s new art capital. By studying with leading masters and showing their work in Paris, these artists aimed to attract patronage from American collectors who had begun to buy contemporary French art in earnest soon after the end of the American Civil War. Paris inspired decisive changes in American painters’ styles and subjects, and stimulated the creation of more sophisticated art schools and higher professional standards back in the United States.

This landmark exhibition features some 100 oil paintings by 37 Americans whose accomplishments proclaim the truth of what Henry James observed in 1887: "It sounds like a paradox, but it is a very simple truth, that when to-day we look for ‘American art’ we find it mainly in Paris. When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a great deal of Paris in it." Representing the breadth of artistic activity in Paris, the exhibition includes painters who were aligned with vanguard tendencies—particularly what came to be known as Impressionism—as well as those who espoused the academic principles that many American patrons preferred.

Browse more exhibitions from the Met:
http://www.metmuseum.org/special/index.asp

Regards,

Judy Decker
Incredible Art Department
http://www.princetonol.com/groups/iad/
Incredible Art Resources
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