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The Queensland Art Gallery will be the only venue in the world to show the exhibition 'American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met', featuring 71 Impressionist and Realist paintings from the Metropolitan’s collection of American paintings and sculpture. They have never been exhibited together and are unlikely to be lent again as an exhibition.
The works are usually displayed in the permanent galleries of the Metropolitan Museum's American Wing, the renovation of which has enabled such an unusally large number of major American paintings to be lent for this unique exhibition.
The exhibition comprises paintings by 34 artists, including leading figures such as Impressionists John Singer Sargent, Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, and Realists John Sloan and William Glackens. Also included is a selection of paintings by James McNeill Whistler, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins, who flourished around 1900 and influenced both Impressionists and the Realists.
Highlighting how Australian artists responded to key artistic developments of the time, more than 30 iconic Australian paintings will also be included in the exhibition. Australian artists will include Tom Roberts, Charles Conder, Frederick McCubbin and Rupert Bunny.
The exhibition will include light-filled landscapes and seascapes, magnificent portraiture and images that reflect aspects of modern life — leisure, cities, and intimate depictions of women and children.
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