At Giverny, American Paintings from the Terra Collection

Published on 15 October 2020, by Christophe Averty

As if drawn to a new way of seeing and attracted by Claude Monet's liberated brushstrokes, many American painters joined the Impressionist experience. Around 30 of them, presented at Giverny, meticulously depicted nature to capture its quintessence and emotional impact.

John Leslie Breck (1859-1899), Études d’un jour d’automne nº 2 (Studies of an Autumn... At Giverny, American Paintings from the Terra Collection

John Leslie Breck (1859-1899), Études d’un jour d’automne nº 2 (Studies of an Autumn Day No. 2), 1891, oil on canvas, 32.7 x 41.1 cm (detail), Chicago, Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection.
© Terra Foundation for American Art, Chicago

The show reveals an impulse wavering between evolution and a break with the past, the gradual shift from a romantic and realistic vision of landscape to its subjective expression. The exhibition starts with sweeping panoramas such as Sanford Robinson Gifford’s Hunter Mountain , Twilight and Frederic Edwin Church’s luminescent Icebergs glowing in the sunlight, attesting to the forces that…

This content is for subscribers only

You still have 85% left to read.

To discover more, Subscribe