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Monet and the Modern City
Claude Monet and his contemporaries responded to the urban industrial landscape through works that convey the power and promise of modernization. Monet and the Modern City explores the enduring theme of industry in art, capturing the essence of the atmospheric conditions of the modern industrial environment that fascinated artists such as Monet, Camille Pissarro, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, F茅lix Buhot, and Auguste Lep猫re. Pittsburgh鈥檚 own industrial aesthetic will be represented by works from the French printmaker Jean-Emile Laboureur鈥檚 Ten Etchings of Pittsburgh series and grandiose views of steel mills by Americans Aaron Gorson, Joseph Pennell, and Joseph Stella.
This exhibition will feature selections from Monet鈥檚 Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, an exhibition organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Carnegie Museum of Art鈥檚 own Waterloo Bridge painting is presented alongside two others from the series, thanks to the Memorial Art Gallery and Worcester Art Museum. Together, these works suggest the range of moods and colors that serial painting can produce.
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Claude Monet and his contemporaries responded to the urban industrial landscape through works that convey the power and promise of modernization. Monet and the Modern City explores the enduring theme of industry in art, capturing the essence of the atmospheric conditions of the modern industrial environment that fascinated artists such as Monet, Camille Pissarro, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, F茅lix Buhot, and Auguste Lep猫re. Pittsburgh鈥檚 own industrial aesthetic will be represented by works from the French printmaker Jean-Emile Laboureur鈥檚 Ten Etchings of Pittsburgh series and grandiose views of steel mills by Americans Aaron Gorson, Joseph Pennell, and Joseph Stella.
This exhibition will feature selections from Monet鈥檚 Waterloo Bridge: Vision and Process, an exhibition organized by the Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester. Carnegie Museum of Art鈥檚 own Waterloo Bridge painting is presented alongside two others from the series, thanks to the Memorial Art Gallery and Worcester Art Museum. Together, these works suggest the range of moods and colors that serial painting can produce.
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