FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
NEW YORK, NY, NOVEMBER 22, 2013 – The Musée des Impressionnismes in Giverny will open its 2014 season with the exhibition "Impressionism and the Americans," which will be on view from March 28 to June 29, 2014. Focusing on the development of impressionism in America between the years 1880 to 1900, the exhibition features 70 paintings by renowned artists such as Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent and James McNeill Whistler.
Often working alongside French impressionist painters, these ex-pats made the French movement their own and crafted a new vision for the traditional American landscape painting.
This exhibition is organized by the Musée des Impressionnismes in Giverny and the with the generous support of the Terra Foundation for American Art in collaboration with Scotland's National Galleries of Art and Madrid's Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza.
