The Age of Impressionism: Great French Paintings from the Clark, March 11–June 17, 2012
The Kimbell Art Museum, in Ft. Worth, Texas, presents the first-ever international touring exhibition of masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
The Clark is best known for its holdings in French Impressionist painting, which include over thirty works by Pierre-Auguste Renoir. The seventy-three paintings in the exhibition include twenty-one by Renoir, along with four by Edgar Degas, two by Edouard Manet, six by Claude Monet, two by Berthe Morisot, seven by Camille Pissarro, and four by Alfred Sisley. Accompanying these will be works by other prominent French painters of the period, including William-Adolphe Bouguereau, Camille Corot, Paul Gauguin, Jean-Léon Gérome, Jacques-Joseph Tissot, and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec. Many are celebrated masterpieces that visitors will recognize from reproductions even if they have never made the pilgrimage to Williamstown to see them in the flesh.
The exhibition is touring for a period of three years (2011–14) and will be shown at major venues in Italy, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, Japan, and China. The Kimbell is its only American venue.
