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American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York 30 May – 20 September 2009, Queensland Art Gallery 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 larg 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. The exhibition was organised by The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, in collaboration with the Queensland Art Gallery and Art Exhibitions Australia. For more information about the Metropolitan, please visit www.metmuseum.org The Publication Works selected by the curator H Barbara Weinberg for the exhibition ‘American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met’, will feature in the richly illustrated publication along with accompanying texts. Key essays from American and Australian scholars will address The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s American collection, and the works of art and themes of the exhibition, as well as the Australian connection. Jointly published by Art Exhibitions Australia and the Queensland Art Gallery, American Impressionism and Realism: A Landmark Exhibition from the Met will have wide appeal to general audiences and scholars alike. The catalogue will be available from the exhibition shop, the Gallery Store and online.