American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
A world-exclusive exhibition, 'American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met', will be presented at the Queensland Art Gallery from 30 May to 20 September 2009. Featuring more than 70 impressionist and realist paintings from the Metropolitan's collection of American paintings and sculpture. The exhibition will represent some of America's artists of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, including James Abbott McNeill Whistler, John Singer Sargent, Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, William Merritt-Chase, Maurice Prendergast and Mary Cassatt.
Highlighting how Australian artists responded to key artistic developments of the time, more than 30 iconic Australian paintings will also be included in the exhibition. Australian artists will include Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin and Rupert Bunny. The exhibition will include light-filled landscapes and seascapes, magnificent portraiture and images that reflect aspects of modern life - leisure, cities and intimate depictions of women and children.
