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MILLET TO MATISSE
Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century French Paintings
from Kelvingrove Art Gallery, Glasgow
Edited by Vivien Hamilton
 2003,
256 pp., 50 b/w + 150 colorplates, 9 1/2 x 11, $49.95. Become
a Museum member and save $5 off the retail price.
The
City of Glasgow possesses an internationally renowned collection
of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist paintings. This magnificent
book, the catalogue for a major exhibition, features sixty-four
of the finest paintings in this collection, including important
works by Rousseau, Corot,
Monet, Renoir, Cézanne, Gauguin, Van Gogh, Picasso, Derain,
Matisse, and Rouault.
The
lavishly illustrated book provides a short essay on each work
as well as full catalogue details. There are also four introductory
essays by prominent scholars that set the paintings in context.
Irene Maver examines the social, political, and economic environment
of Glasgow from its beginnings until the First World War; Frances
Fowle charts the taste for French art in the west of Scotland
during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century; Hugh Stevenson
explores the early history of the city's collection and its assimilation
of contemporary French paintings; and Belinda Thomson discusses
how Glasgow's collection relates to the wider historical context
of French painting of the period.
Vivien
Hamilton is Curator of European Art, Glasgow Museums, and the
curator of the exhibition.
The
exhibition, which has been co-organized by The American Federation
of Arts and Glasgow Museums, travels to The Speed Art Museum,
Louisville, Kentucky (6 November 2002 - 2 February 2003), and
from there to many other venues in North America.
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