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The spirit of France: the 1940–46 exhibition of French art in the United States
08/2012 | 1313 | 154
Pages: 564-569
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Author:
Yeide, Nancy H. (Yeide, Nancy H.)
Subjects
dates:
1930-1939 / 1940-1949
museums and institutions:
Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes de Buenos Aires (MNBA), Buenos Aires, Argentina / Salón Nacional de Bellas Artes, Montevideo, Uruguay / Museu Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil / de Young Museum, San Francisco, United States / Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, United States / Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, United States / Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, United States / Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, United States / Portland Museum of Art, Portland, United States / National Gallery of Art, Washington, United States
places:
Buenos Aires / Argentina / Montevideo / Uruguay / Rio de Janeiro / Brazil / San Francisco / United States / Los Angeles / New York / Worcester (United States) / Chicago / Washington DC / Portland (United States)
print:
Exhibitions
subjects:
Exhibitions / French painting
Illustrations
Attributed works:
35. Skating, by Edouard Manet. 1877. Canvas, 92 by 71.7 cm. (Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge MA).
Attributed works:
39. Two young girls at the piano, by Auguste Renoir. 1892. Canvas, 111.8 by 86.4 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Attributed works:
40. Avenue at Chantilly, by Paul Cézanne. 1887. Canvas, 81.3 by 64.8 cm. (Toledo Museum of Art OH).
Western art unattributed:
36. Installation of the exhibition of French art at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1941.
Western art unattributed:
38. Visitors at the opening of Masterpieces of French Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, April 1941, with Claude Monet’s Jetty at Le Havre (1868; private collection).
Western art unattributed:
7. Crowds at the opening of Masterpieces of French Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, April 1941. The large painting in the centre is The Hermitage at Pontoise (c.1867), by Camille Pissarro, lent by Justin K. Thannhauser, who later donated it to the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. To its left is Edgard Degas’s Victoria Dubourg (c.1866–68; Toledo Museum of Art), lent by Paul Louis Weiller; to its right is Edouard Manet’s Autumn (1881), lent by the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Nancy.