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Item Number: 124875
Title: COURBET : Mapping Realism : Paintings from the Royal Museum of Fine Arts of Belgium and American Collections
Author: Howe, Jeffrey (ed)
Price: Not Available
ISBN: 9781892850218
Description: Boston: McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2013. 30cm., pbk., 140pp., 49 color plates, 25 b&w illus. Exhibition catalogue. Summary: The McMullen Museum exhibition first traces Courbet’s influence on Belgian artists and then moves across the Atlantic to chart his impact on American painters, including William Morris Hunt, John La Farge, and Winslow Homer. While Courbet’s paintings were often controversial in France, in America—particularly New England—artists responded warmly to his paintings of natural landscapes and found inspiration in his direct observation of nature. According to organizers, visitors to the exhibition will discover that Boston’s private collectors and the Allston Club, an independent artists’ association, both collected and displayed Courbet’s landscapes. An early purchase by Isabella Stewart Gardner, A View across a River, is among the works in the exhibition.
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