Exhibitions: Past

The San Antonio Museum of Art announces Collecting the Impressionists:

Masterpieces from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute

which opens to the public on Saturday, November 18, 2006. The exhibit is the first nationally touring exhibition of works from the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute’s collections, featuring major paintings by Renoir, Monet, Degas, Pissarro, Manet, and Morisot.  Among the highlights is Renoir’s Girl Crocheting, the first of 39 paintings by the artist acquired by Sterling Clark, which has rarely been seen outside of Williamstown since 1946. Director Marion Oettinger, Jr., commented “We’re delighted to have an exhibition of this caliber come to San Antonio. The French Impressionists have universal appeal, and this show is the best of the best of that genre. Plus, the holiday timing couldn’t be more perfect – this is an exhibit to show off to friends and family and really linger over.”

           

Collecting the Impressionists features Renoir most prominently, exhibiting five of the artist’s works: At the Concert, Girl Crocheting, A Girl with a Fan, Onions, and Self-Portrait. Other works in the exhibition include Degas’s The Dancing Lesson, Monet’s The Duck Pond and Spring in Giverny, Morisot’s The Bath (Girl Arranging Her Hair), Pissarro’s Piette's House at Montfoucault and The River Oise Near Pontoise, and Manet’s Moss Roses in a Vase.