Now at the ARG—California Impressionism: Masters of Light from the Irvine Museum |
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September 25, 2012,
Volume 59, No. 05 |
The Arthur Ross Gallery at the University of Pennsylvania is now showing California Impressionism: Masters of Light from the Irvine Museum. It continues through October 28. The exhibition presents more than 30 paintings that capture the sublime beauty of California from 1885 to 1931. Lent by the Irvine Museum in Irvine, California, this traveling exhibition includes works by Franz Bischoff, Colin Campbell Cooper, Anna Hills, Granville Redmond and Guy Rose, among others.
When the first Impressionist exhibition was held in Paris, France in 1874, art critics derided it as radical art. By the 1880s American artists, inspired by the Impressionists’ use of light, color, and optics, flocked to Paris to become students of plein air painting. Upon their return, these artists advanced American landscape painting in new ways by incorporating Impressionist techniques.
A series of related programs for California Impressionism will be offered this fall at the Arthur Ross Gallery, including:
Talks
Wednesday, October 3 at 5:30 p.m.: a gallery talk, Impressionism: Sensation and Translation with André Dombrowski, assistant professor in history of art.
Saturday, October 27 at 11:15 a.m.: a panel discussion (during Homecoming Weekend), Masters of Light: French and California Impressionism, André Dombrowski, assistant professor in history of art, and James Irvine Swinden, W’76, president of the Irvine Museum. Moderated by Lynn Marsden-Atlass, Arthur Ross Galery director and University Curator.
Wine tasting
Thursday, October 25 at 5:30 p.m., tour the exhibition and join in a wine tasting of French and California wines, $20; reservations required: call (215) 898-2083 or email arg@pobox.upenn.edu
Two of the dozens of paintings from the current show at the ARG: California Impressionism: Masters of Light from the Irvine Museum.
(Top) Mission Garden, San Juan Capistrano, Arthur G. Rider (1886-1975), circa 1929, oil on canvas, 22” x 20”, private collection, courtesy of the Irvine Museum.
(Bottom) Point Lobos, circa 1918, Guy Rose (1867-1925), oil on canvas, 24” x 29”, The James Irvine Swinden Family Collection. |
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