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Born into a new age of urban culture, social mobility, and leisure, the Impressionists captured the era麓s rampant prosperity and social change in images of places they inhabited. This exhibition of some 60 works on paper looks at those spaces鈥攂oth public and private鈥攁nd the various artistic methods the artists used to captivate their modern world.

The public spaces range from fashionable boulevards, avenues, and parks to caf讬 concerts, theaters, bars, and racetracks. While they looked at their changing world, the Impressionists also turned inward for inspiration, utilizing friends and family as models set within their immediate surroundings. Glimpses of intimate settings reveal daily domestic pastimes: housework and childcare, bedrooms and boudoirs, entertaining and etiquette.

The Post-Impressionist artists, working mainly from the 1880s onward, continued to draw from the same subject matter as the Impressionists but developed different precepts for the use of color, pattern, form, and line. Intimate Settings and Public Spaces: Impressionist and Post-Impressionist Drawings and Prints features work by artists including Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Jules Ch讬ret, Edgar Degas, 止douard Manet, Auguste Renoir, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, F讬lix Emile-Jean Vallotton, and 止douard Vuillard.

Paintings have been of primary use in the discussion on Impressionist and Post-Impressionist imagery, based on the interest in visible brush strokes and emphasis on light and color. Yet works on paper鈥攗sing a diversity of media from chalk, graphite, pastel, and watercolor to etchings and lithographs鈥攁lso demonstrate both groups麓 interest in capturing private and public spaces.