Composed of masterpieces from the collection of the Brooklyn Museum, Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism explores the unities of style, color, and light in this all-important international movement. Featuring works by Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eugène-Louis Boudin, John Singer Sargent, George Inness, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissaro, Gustave Courbet, and their peers, this exhibition of 40 works further explores the development of modernist sensibilities in the plein-air easel traditions of France and the United States.

Landscapes from the Age of Impressionism has been organized by the Brooklyn Museum of Art.

Maine Sunday Telegram feature story 09/25/08.

Podcast: Listen to Chief Curator Tom Denenberg talk about the exhibition. 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Les Vignes à Cagnes (The Vineyards at Cagnes), 1908, oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 21 3/4 inches, Brooklyn Museum. Gift of Colonel and Mrs. E.W. Garbisch.

This exhibition celebrates a series of 89 photographs made by internationally renowned photographer André Kertész (1894–1985). Taken in Hungary, France, and the United States during a 50-year period, Kertész’s photographs illustrate his love for the poetry and choreography of life reflected in public as well as private moments, tapping the power of reading as a universal pleasure. The photographs in the exhibition are drawn from the collection of Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago.

André Kertész: On Reading is organized by The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Columbia College, Chicago. The exhibition tour is organized by Curatorial Assistance Traveling Exhibitions (CATE), Pasadena, California.

Podcast: Listen to Curator Susan Danly talk about the exhibition.

Boston Sunday Globe review 09/21/08

André Kertész (American, born Austria-Hungary, 1894-1985), New York (boy eating ice cream on a pile of newspapers), 1944,© Courtesy Estate of André Kertész/Higher Pictures 2007.

From the earliest examples of American art until the present day, images of animals serve as vehicles for meaning. Native and exotic creatures alike help artists to explore issues of identity: the quality and nature of being American or foreign, human or beast, wild or civilized, innocent or worldly. These are all issues that artists grapple with in American Menagerie. Featuring 25 works drawn primarily from the Museum’s permanent collection, this exhibition features artists such as Dahlov Ipcar, Bernard Langlais, Will Barnet, Wendy Kindred, Scott Leighton, and Edward Hicks.

A special section of the exhibition features drawings, postcards, and ephemera that relates to the famous political cartoonist Clifford K. Berryman, who is credited with the creation of the “Teddy Bear.” The figure of the little bear first appeared in 1902 in a cartoon Berryman drew for the Washington Post. Drawing the Line in Mississippi depicted a steadfast Theodore Roosevelt refusing to shoot a cowering bear cub. Eventually the cub became both a personification of and a fictional companion to President Roosevelt in Berryman’s cartoons for the Post and the Washington Star. Berryman’s witty, incisive, and unfailingly endearing images add another layer to our understanding of American animals in this election year.

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Dahlov Ipcar (United States, born 1917), Bright Barnyard, 1965, oil on canvas, 30 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches, Portland Museum of Art.