Frontiers of Impressionism: Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum

Impressionist art is anything but tame and stagnant. Frontiers of Impressionism explores the evolution of the radical artistic movement that changed the course of art history. The audience will see fifty-three stellar paintings from the Worcester Art Museum’s collection through the lens of more than thirty artists—American and European—including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition chronicles the emergence of Impressionism in nineteenth-century France, its expansion to much of Europe and the United States, and the lasting changes these progressive artists have brought to the art world.

Artworks

A painting of a road by a beach on a sunny day, rendered in points of color. — Paul Signac, *Golfe Juan*, 1896, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, Gift from the Chapin and Mary Alexander Riley Collection, 1964.27

A painting of a dark-skinned woman, rendered in soft brushstrokes. — Pierre-Auguste Renoir, *Arab Woman*, 1882, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, 1935.8

Painting of two women carrying buckets of water. — John Singer Sargent, *Venetian Water Carriers*, 1880–1882, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, museum purchase through the Sustaining Membership Fund, 1911.30

This exhibition was organized by the WORCESTER ART MUSEUM.

This exhibition was organized with the support of The Museum Box.

Exhibition Sponsors

Lead Sponsor
Dr. Dawn F. Lipson

Associate Sponsors
McDonald Family
Marion Swett Robinson
George and Barbara Segel

Contributing Sponsors
Michael Feinstein
Nancy and Bill Holowka
Ken McCurdy
The Moore Family in memory of James C. Moore

Fellow Sponsors
Judith and Lawrence Ricotta

Memorial Art Gallery Endowed Fund Support
Dr. and Mrs. James H. Lockhart, Jr. Fund
Robert L. and Mary L. Sproull Fund
Nancy R. Turner Fund for Temporary Exhibitions