Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection
Seeing Nature explores the development of landscape painting, from a small window on the world to interpretations of artists鈥� personal experiences with their surroundings on land and sea. It reveals the power of landscape to locate the viewer in time and place鈥攖o record, explore, and understand the natural and man-made world. This exhibition presents masterpieces spanning five centuries by artists such as Paul C茅zanne, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Georgia O鈥橩eeffe, Gerhard Richter and J.M.W. Turner.
In the 19th century, the early impressionists focused on direct observation of nature. This exhibition is particularly strong in the works of Claude Monet. Five Monet landscapes spanning 30 years are featured, from views of the French countryside to one of his late representations of water lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymph茅as of 1919. C茅zanne and his fellow post鈥恑mpressionists used a more subjective approach to creating works such as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1888-90). Also on view is Austrian painter Gustav Klimt鈥檚 rare landscape masterpiece, Birch Forest of 1903, exhibited for the first time since 2006.
Several works in the exhibition offer varying interpretations of a single location. Venice鈥檚 romantic vista is seen through multiple lenses, from Canaletto鈥檚 detailed renderings, to J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Moran鈥檚 dreamy visions, to Manet鈥檚 photographic crispness and Monet鈥檚 nearly abstract composition. The Grand Canyon鈥檚 immensity is seen in Moran鈥檚 intimately scaled depiction, Arthur Wesley Dow鈥檚 mesmerizing pattern of ridged peaks and David Hockney鈥檚 multi-canvas composition. The last part of the exhibition explores the paintings of 20th century artists, such as Georgia O鈥橩eeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha, who brought fresh perspectives to traditional landscape subjects.
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Seeing Nature explores the development of landscape painting, from a small window on the world to interpretations of artists鈥� personal experiences with their surroundings on land and sea. It reveals the power of landscape to locate the viewer in time and place鈥攖o record, explore, and understand the natural and man-made world. This exhibition presents masterpieces spanning five centuries by artists such as Paul C茅zanne, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Georgia O鈥橩eeffe, Gerhard Richter and J.M.W. Turner.
In the 19th century, the early impressionists focused on direct observation of nature. This exhibition is particularly strong in the works of Claude Monet. Five Monet landscapes spanning 30 years are featured, from views of the French countryside to one of his late representations of water lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymph茅as of 1919. C茅zanne and his fellow post鈥恑mpressionists used a more subjective approach to creating works such as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1888-90). Also on view is Austrian painter Gustav Klimt鈥檚 rare landscape masterpiece, Birch Forest of 1903, exhibited for the first time since 2006.
Several works in the exhibition offer varying interpretations of a single location. Venice鈥檚 romantic vista is seen through multiple lenses, from Canaletto鈥檚 detailed renderings, to J.M.W. Turner and Thomas Moran鈥檚 dreamy visions, to Manet鈥檚 photographic crispness and Monet鈥檚 nearly abstract composition. The Grand Canyon鈥檚 immensity is seen in Moran鈥檚 intimately scaled depiction, Arthur Wesley Dow鈥檚 mesmerizing pattern of ridged peaks and David Hockney鈥檚 multi-canvas composition. The last part of the exhibition explores the paintings of 20th century artists, such as Georgia O鈥橩eeffe, Edward Hopper, David Hockney, Gerhard Richter and Ed Ruscha, who brought fresh perspectives to traditional landscape subjects.
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