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Destinations: Artists' Favorite Places
9/15/2001 - 12/9/2001
The Norton Museum of Art is pleased to present a magnificent
selection of watercolors, gouaches, lithographs, etchings and
engravings, from the eighteenth through the twentieth centuries,
illustrating an array of well-known destinations from around the
world.
Destinations: Artists' Favorite Places surveys a wide-ranging and
diverse spectrum of cities and sights, in America and abroad, which
both artists and the traveling public have found intriguing. Along
with a number of works depicting Venice, Paris and New York, the
exhibition also includes works devoted to more obscure locations,
such as the picturesque back streets of Cairo and the peaceful
Italian Brenta canal region.
Featuring works on paper by European and American masters, this show
includes 25 works by as many artists, ranging from large elaborate
compositions to small intimate sketches and minutely detailed
prints. Some of the artists selected for the show are George
Bellows, Sir William Russell Flint, R.A., Winslow Homer, John Marin,
Giovanni Battista Piranesi, Maurice Prendergast and Paul Signac.
From the sheer visual delight of the images to the fascination with
the romantic and exotic, the exhibition is inextricably linked to
the growing ease of travel that artists and the general public
enjoyed. The industrial revolution brought about such inventions as
the steam locomotive, the ocean liner and the automobile, which
transformed travel. Suddenly distances were measured in days rather
than weeks, and hours rather than days. With the development of the
passenger airplane in the last century, traveling great distances
became even easier and less time consuming, allowing artists access
to the most remote areas. The exhibition explores themes that
include defining the role the affluent middle class played in
popularizing certain destinations, and the effect the widespread
availability of images had on raising the status of locations chosen
by artists.
Destinations: Artists' Favorite Places is organized by the Norton
Museum of Art.
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