Van Gogh & Friends: Extraordinary Exhibition at The Huntington Library Presents Masters of Impressio
Hammer Museum masterpieces travel East to the Huntington
Through January 2, the public will enjoy seeing 15 impressionist and post-impressionist masterpieces from the Hammer Museum's collection in a new setting: the Huntington Library in Pasadena.
"Henry Huntington and Armand Hammer never met each other, but the two businessmen had at least one thing in common: they both established great art collections that form the core of major museums in Los Angeles.
In an exciting “meet-up” of sorts, 15 important works from the Hammer Museum have taken up temporary residence at The Huntington, offering visitors the unprecedented opportunity to enjoy masterpieces from both collections in one place. Van Gogh & Friends: Masterpieces of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism from the Hammer Museum is on view in the Huntington Art Gallery through January 2, 2017.
The Hammer collection is particularly strong in late 19th-century French painting, and this loan exhibition includes a selection of spectacular works by such luminaries as Van Gogh, Cezanne, Gauguin, Monet, and others. Installed in a second-floor gallery in the former Huntington residence, these paintings not only represent significant achievements in modern painting to be relished individually but also resonate with The Huntington’s own collection of British art. It was Englishman John Constable’s innovative landscapes, replete with shimmering light and shadow, that inspired French artists to bring a particularly vivid and radical form of his plein air painting into the modern era. Constable’s View on the Stour Near Dedham (1822), is among the artist’s finest works and one of the most important paintings in The Huntington’s permanent collections."— Pasadena Now, July 13, 2016
Read the full article at the Pasadena Now website.