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Impressionist France
Visions of Nation from Le Gray to Monet
Simon Kelly and April M. Watson • With essays by Neil McWilliam and Maura Coughlin
Between 1850 and 1880, Impressionist landscape painting and early forms of photography
flourished in France. In the context of massive social and political change that also marked this era,
painters and photographers composed competing visions of France as modern and industrialised or
as rural and anti-modern. Impressionist France explores the resonances between landscape art and
national identity as reflected in the paintings and photographs made during this period, examining
in particular the works of artists such as Edouard Baldus, Gustave Le Gray, the Bisson Frères,
Edouard Manet, Jean-François Millet, Claude Monet, Charles Nègre and Camille Pissarro.
Exhibition Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 19/10/13 – 09/02/14; Saint Louis Art Museum, 16/03/14 – 06/07/14
Simon Kelly is curator of modern and contemporary art at the Saint Louis Art Museum. April M. Watson is associate curator,
photography, at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.
Distributed for the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and the Saint Louis Museum of Art
October 320 pp. 279x241mm. 359 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-19695-5 £25.00*
Translation rights: Saint Louis Art Museum
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden
Guillaume Fonkenell • With essays by Laura D. Corey, Paula Deitz, Bruce Guenther and Sarah Kennel
The Tuileries Garden is a masterpiece of garden design and one of the world’s most iconic public art
spaces. Designed for Louis XIV by landscape architect André Le Nôtre, it served the now-destroyed
Tuileries Palace. It was opened to the public in 1667, becoming one of the first public gardens in
Europe. The garden has always been a place for Parisians to convene, celebrate and promenade, and
art has played an important role throughout its history. Monumental sculptures give the garden the
air of an outdoor museum, and the garden’s beautiful backdrop has inspired artists from Edouard
Manet to André Kertész.
The Art of the Louvre’s Tuileries Garden brings together 100 works of art, including sculpture, painting, as well as documentary
photographs, prints and models illuminating the garden’s rich history. Beautifully illustrated essays by leading scholars of art and
garden studies highlight the significance of the Tuileries Garden to works of art from the past 300 years and reaffirm its
importance to the history of landscape architecture.
Exhibition High Museum of Art, 29/10/13 – 19/01/14; Toledo Museum of Art, 13/02/14 – 11/05/14;
Portland Art Museum, 14/06/14 – 28/09/14
Guillaume Fonkenell is curator of sculpture and museum historian at the Louvre. Laura D. Corey is consulting curator at the
High Museum of Art. Paula Deitz is editor of the Hudson Review. Bruce Guenther is chief curator at the Portland Art Museum.
Sarah Kennel is associate curator in the department of photographs at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Published in association with the High Museum of Art
January 160 pp. 254x305mm. 100 colour & b/w illus. HB ISBN 978-0-300-19737-2 £35.00*
Translation rights: High Museum of Art, Atlanta
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art
The Richard R. Brettell Lecture Series
Edited by Heather MacDonald • With essays by Richard R. Brettell, André Dombrowski,
Stephen F. Eisenmann, Paul Galvez, John House, Richard Kendall, Dorothy Kosinski, Antoinette Le
Normand-Romain, Nancy Locke, Belinda Thomson, Richard Thomson and Paul Hayes Tucker
Impressionism and Post-Impressionism at the Dallas Museum of Art offers a series of intimate case
studies in the history of 19th-century European art. Inspired by a series of public lectures given at the
Dallas Museum of Art between 2009 and 2013, the volume comprises twelve beautifully illustrated
essays from leading academics and museum specialists. Opening with a new reading of one of
Gustave Courbet’s great hunting scenes, The Fox in the Snow, and ending with an exploration of a
group of interior scenes by Edouard Vuillard, each essay stands alone as a richly contextualised
reading of a single work or group of works by one artist. The authors approach their subjects from a range of methodological
perspectives, but all pay close attention to the experience of making and viewing works of art.
Heather MacDonald is Lillian and James H. Clark Associate Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art.
Camille Pissarro, The Tuileries Gardens (Jardin des Tuileries), 1900.
Oil on canvas. 28 3/4 x 36 1/4 inches. Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum, Glasgow, 2811
Distributed for the Dallas Museum of Art
September 144 pp. 254x178mm. 150 colour illus. PB ISBN 978-0-300-18757-1 £16.99*
Translation rights: The Dallas Museum of Art