Dallas Museum Of Art will run an exhibition named 'The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850–1874' from February 21 to May 23, 2010, at Chilton I Gallery.
The Lens of Impressionism is an exploration of Impressionist painting’s response to early photography within the context of a single geographic locale that was intensely explored by painters and photographers in the second half of the 19th century, the coast of Normandy.
The convergence of social, artistic, technological and commercial forces along the Normandy coast dramatically transformed the course of photography and painting, ultimately making a profound impact on the history of early Impressionism. Among the artists represented here are Claude Monet, Edouard Manet, and Gustave Courbet, and the exhibition will also include photographs of Gustav Le Gray, Henri Le Seq, and Louis-Alphonse Davanne.
The exhibition will include approximately 90 works, including photographs, paintings, drawings and prints. Forty photographs, most of them vintage prints, and thirty-eight paintings, pastels and watercolors will be shown, along with a selection of prints, maps and ephemera evoking the new touristic culture of the Normandy coast.
The Lens of Impressionism: Photography and Painting Along the Normandy Coast, 1850-1874 is organized by the University of Michigan Museum of Art, where it will open in October 2009. It is made possible in part by the Florence Gould Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, and other generous donors. The curator of the Dallas presentation is Heather MacDonald, The Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major catalogue, including a series of essays by noted scholars in the field and entries on each of the exhibited works.
The picture shows Claude Monet, Seascape: Storm, 1866. oil on canvas, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, U. S. A. -- www.dallasmuseumofart.org
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