Cézanne’s work, especially landscape paintings, increasingly verged on abstraction in the artist’s last two decades. In this study of light and reflection, structures on the bank and on the river are simplified into geometric shapes that contrast with the organic lushness surrounding them.
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
Museum of Western and Eastern Art, 1979 (organized by the Armand Hammer Foundation, Los
In her youth, Georgia O’Keeffe had been particularly fascinated by the jack-in-the-pulpit. In 1930, she executed a series of six paintings of the common North American herbaceous flowering plant at Lake George in New York.
Institute of Chicago; Dallas Museum of Art; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Los
Between 1877 and 1878, Gustave Caillebotte made a series of paintings focusing on swimmers, fishermen, rowers, and canoers at his family estate in Yerres. In Skiffs , which was exhibited at the fourth impressionist exhibition in 1879 under the name Pésissoires sur L’Yerres (Flat-Bottom Canoes on the Yerres) , he adopted the short, broken brushstrokes of Monet and the bold palette of Renoir, but achieved a much different effect:
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
Wildenstein’s (Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los
The first exhibition to consider photography’s impact on a cultural and aesthetic movement that celebrated Black history, identity, and beauty.
Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, February 24–June 14, 2026 Mississippi Museum of
Bazille spent a month working in Aigues-Mortes, a fortified medieval town in Southern France. This painting, one of three he produced there, is awash in color.
Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los Angeles
1999 Around Impressionism: French Paintings from the National Gallery of Art, Los
Childe Hassam was a regular visitor to the Isles of Shoals, nine small, rocky, treeless islands off the New Hampshire coast. His acquaintance with the islands was due to his poet friend Celia Thaxter, whose house on Appledore Island was a summer mecca for writers, painters, illustrators, musicians, and other artistic visitors.
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With this terra-cotta statue, slightly under life-size, we encounter figures that demonstrate the beginnings of the Italian Renaissance admiration for the human body. Earlier statues in the collection, like the Pisan Annunciation pair, The Archangel Gabriel and The Virgin Annunciate, present the figure as a relatively simple and static form, with drapery arranged in graceful, decorative patterns that tell little about the body it covers.
(Duveen Brothers Records, accession number 960015, Getty Research Institute, Los
