Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Flint Institute of Art to april 18.2010


February 6 – April 18, 2010
Impressionist and Post Impressionist:
Paintings from the FIA's Permanent Collection

Johnson & Rabiah Galleries


Adjacent to the FIA Contemporary and Dow Galleries where Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism exhibition will be shown, the Flint Institute of Arts will present its own collection of Impressionist paintings. The FIA’s collection includes European and American Impressionist works by Alfred Sisley, Charles Daubigny, Jean Baptiste Camille Corot, John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt, Pierre Renoir, Eugène-Louis Boudin, Gustave Courbet and Childe Hassam. In addition, the FIA will show Post-Impressionist works which include works painted in styles that developed out of Impressionism including works by Lucien Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Alexej Jawlensky, Édouard Vuillard, Maurice Denis, Albert Marquet and Andre Segonzac. Together, the exhibition Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism: Paintings from the Brooklyn Museum and the FIA’s permanent collection will create a complete story of the development of Impressionism and the styles that evolved out of Impressionism, both in Europe and the United States.


Above image:
Mary Cassatt

American, 1844–1926
Lydia at a Tapestry Frame
oil on canvas, ca. 1881
25 5/8 x 36 3/8 inches
Gift of The Whiting Foundation, 1967.32

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