The understanding of sensation, perception, and what it meant to portray reality changed dramatically throughout the late 19th century, beginning with the Impressionist movement in France. Impressionism prioritized the individual eye over the disembodied subject of the anonymous viewing body. The theory behind the movement was all about offering a unique experience, a temporary moment, [...]
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American Impressionism: Beyond Boats and Parasols
Posted in Collection Highlights, Exhibitions, Impressionism, tagged American Impressionism, Charles Hawthorne, Childe Hassam, William Merritt Chase on July 14, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Art and Identity in a Creative Environment
Posted in Exhibitions, Impressionism, tagged art colony, Charles W. Hawthorne, Claude Monet, Impressionism, Jean-Francois Millet, plein air, Provincetown on July 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One week from today, the NBMAA will open its newest exhibition The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America’s Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011). With the installation well under way, we have stopped to consider one seemingly elemental, though crucial question that quietly lurks behind the very title of the show. That question of course [...]
A Life-Sized Testament to Love
Posted in Collection Highlights, Impressionism, New Acquisition, Press Releases, tagged Edmund Charles Tarbell, Eiffel Tower, Exposition Universelle 1889, Frank Benson, Impressionism, New Britain Museum of American Art, Paris, Storming of the Bastille, World's Fair 1889 on April 1, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Just a few days ago, the NBMAA purcahsed a full-scale, life-sized portrait of Emeline Arnold Souther (Mrs. Edmund Charles Tarbell.) Edmund Charles Tarbell painted this masterpiece early on in their relationship, in fact it was painted in the year they were married (1888) right before he became a teacher for several decades at the Boston Museum School. [...]
Frieseke: Under the French Influence
Posted in Appropriation & Inspiration, Collection Highlights, Current Exhibitions, Exhibitions, Impressionism, tagged An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art, Claude Monet, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Giverny, Impressionism, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, New Britain Museum of American Art on March 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
One of the main artists featured in the upcoming exhibition An American Odyssey: The Warner Collection of American Art is Frederick Carl Frieseke. Born in Michigan, he studied at The Art Institute of Chicago beginning in 1893. Afterwards he went to the Art Students League in New York City in 1897, until he finally traveled to [...]
A Reluctant Impressionist?
Posted in Appropriation & Inspiration, Collection Highlights, Impressionism, tagged Art Nouveau, Celia Thaxter in Her Garden, Childe Hassam, Frederick Frieseke, Impressionism, James Abbot McNeill Whistler, NBMAA, Renoir, The Bird Cage, Venus in the Sunlight on December 21, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939) was an American Impressionist Painter who was part of the Giverny group, but until recently was not very well-known. Frieseke was born in Owosso, Michigan, in 1874 and, from a young age, he was interested in many forms of art. He first began studying art at the Art Institute of Chicago, [...]
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