An international episode

By Laura L. Meixner

Subjects: Influence, Painting, American, Artist colonies, French influences, American Painting, Modern Painting, Exhibitions, Barbizon school

Description: "The...exhibition addresses (the) issue of dual commitment, to French avant garde technique and American traditional imagery, as it manifested itself among certain American artists who worked with Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) and Claude Monet (1840-1926) at Barbizon and Giverny." (from the catalog's introduction) Seventy works (62 oil on canvas, 8 drawings) by the following artists were included in the exhibition: Millet; William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879); Wyatt Eaton (Canadian, 1849-1896); Monet; John Leslie Breck (American, 1860-1899); Theodore Wendel (American, 1859-1932; Willard Leroy Metcalf (American, 1853-1925); Theodore Robinson (American, 1852-1896); Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848-1933); Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939); Theodore E. Butler (American, 1876-1894). Catalog cover is Theodore Robinson's "Gathering Plums" (1891, 22 x 18 Oil on canvas, signed/dated, from the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art). Exhibition and catalog were made possible by generous grants from the National Bank of Commerce, Memphis, Tennessee, and Schering-Plough Corporation.