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Saturday, November 19, 2005
French Impressionism and Boston: Masterworks from the Museum of Fine Arts
NORTON Museum of Art: November 19, 2005 - March 5, 2006
Edmund Charles Tarbell (American, 1862–1938) Mother and Child in a Boat, 1892. Oil on canvas 30 1/8 by 35 inches Bequest of David P. Kimball in memory of his wife Clara Bertram Kimball 23.532
After opening in Nagoya, Japan, in April 2004, the exhibition will move to the Royal Academy this summer before making its American debut at the Norton Museum of Art on November 19, 2005. Eloquently surveying the development of Impressionism in both France and America, French Impressionism and Boston will tell the fascinating story of how the latest and most advanced examples of French art came to be collected by eager Bostonians during the second half of the nineteenth century. Boston was home to some of the best-informed and most progressive collectors of modern painting in the United States. ...