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Nature as muse : impressionist landscapes : from the collection of Frederic C. Hamilton and the Denver Art Museum.

Title
Nature as muse : impressionist landscapes : from the collection of Frederic C. Hamilton and the Denver Art Museum.
Author
Heinrich, Christoph.
Publication
[Denver] : Denver Art Museum, [c2013]

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Description
167 p. : ill. (mostly col.); 27 x 32 cm.
Summary
"Nature as Muse: Impressionist Landscapes from the Frederic C. Hamilton Collection and the Denver Art Museum is part of the exhibition Passport to Paris. It displays the stunning work of nineteenth--century impressionist artists, including Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Alfred Sisley. Focusing on landscape paintings, this exhibition will feature about 36 artworks from the private collection of Frederic C. Hamilton and the DAM's own holdings. This is the first time that the masterworks from Hamilton's private collection will be on view to the public. In the beginning of the nineteenth century, artists took their easels and paints and worked outside, freed from the constraints of studio space and light. Utilizing loose brushstrokes and a soft color palette, the impressionists told the story of the French countryside through their canvases ..."-- http://denverartmuseum.org/exhibitions/nature-muse-impressionist-landscapes-frederic-c-hamilton-collection-and-denver-art (as viewed on 11/26/2013).
Subject
  • Hamilton, Frederic C. > Art collections > Exhibitions
  • Denver Art Museum > Exhibitions
  • 1800-1899
  • Landscape painting
  • Impressionism (Art) > France > Exhibitions
  • Impressionism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions
  • Landscape painting, French > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Landscape painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions
  • Painting > Private collections > United States > Exhibitions
  • Painting > Denver > Exhibitions
Genre/Form
  • exhibition catalogs.
  • Exhibition catalogs
  • Catalogues d'exposition.
Note
  • "This publication accompanies the exhibition Nature as muse: impressionist landscapes from the collection of Frederic C. Hamilton and the Denver Museum of Art, on view at the Denver Art Museum October 27, 2013 - February 9, 2014"--Colophon.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes references (p. 162-165).
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction: The diversity of nature's scenes -- Forerunners. In the forest of Fontainebleau -- Gustave Courbet: rebel and builder of worlds -- Camille Corot: the truth of the first impression -- Charles-Francois Daubigny: the floating studio -- Eugène Boudin: a vividness of touch -- Édouard Manet: Paris by the sea -- Founders. Camille Pissarro: the first impressionist -- Claude Monet: an audacious manner of seeing things -- Alfred Sisley: the smiling mood of nature -- Auguste Renoir: the earthly paradise -- Berthe Morisot: an honest eye and a skilled hand -- Gustave Caillebotte: the builder -- Firebrands. Vincent Van Gogh: the Paris wheat field -- Impressionism arrives int he new world -- Checklist with Provenance compiled by Kristin Bonk Fong.
ISBN
  • 9780914738916
  • 0914738917
LCCN
^^2013945119
OCLC
  • 861209635
  • SCSB-10218276
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library