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Van Gogh, Monet and Degas: Van Gogh, Monet and Degas:

CELEBRATING THE WESTERN CANON

Édouard Manet (1832–1883), On the Beach, Boulogne-sur-Mer, 1868. Oil on canvas. Photo: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

by Steven Ward

Mississippians have a rare opportunity this year to see iconic “This is the fi rst exhibition in a long time of such renowned paintings and sculptures created by seminal French artists of French and Dutch artists in Mississippi. Many pieces from the the 19th and 20th centuries. The collection have never been on view Mississippi Museum of Art (MMA) in the state previously,” said Betsy in Jackson is hosting Van Gogh, Bradley, director of the Mississippi Monet, Degas, and Their Times: Museum of Art. The Mellon Collection of French The collection features more Art from the Virginia Museum of than 74 paintings and sculptures — Fine Arts. both monumental and intimately The exhibit showcases major scaled. schools of French art including “This is the fi rst traveling exRomanticism, Impressionism and hibition of the Mellon Collection Cubism spanning 150 years. This since Mrs. Mellon’s bequest to the exhibition features artwork from Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in modern French masters that are 2014,” said Roger Ward, the muwell known in the United States seum’s deputy director of art and and the world, including Edgar programs. Degas, Eugène Delacroix, Edouard Bradley said visitors can expect Manet, Claude Monet, Berthe a trip to France through time and Morisot, Pablo Picasso, Henri the eyes of some of the most Rousseau and Vincent van Gogh. important artists in history. The pieces all come from Paul “Since travel continues to be and Rachel “Bunny” Lambert Mellon, among the most philanPierre-Auguste Renoir, Pensive (LaSongeuse), 1875. Oil on paper on canvas. Photo by Katherine Wetzel limited, MMA is excited to transport visitors to Paris and the thropic art collecting couples of the last century. The Mellons’ French countryside with this exhibition. Through equestrian personal interests, commitment to modernism and prescient paintings, views of Parish urban cityscapes and landscapes of collection strategies are evident in the grouping. the French countryside, visitors will have a sense France in the This exhibition was organized by the Virginia Fine Arts 19th and 20th centuries, Bradley said. Museum. Its presentation in Jackson is sponsored by the Bradley’s favorite piece in the exhibit is by Monet. Robert M. Hearin Support Foundation.

SOME PIECES INCLUDED IN THE EXHIBITION:

• Vincent van Gogh, “Daisies” • Claude Monet, “Field of Poppies” • Pierre Bonnard, “The Dining Room” • Paul Gauguin, “Still Life with Oysters” • Edward Degas, “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” • Vincent van Gogh, “The Wheat Field Behind St. Paul’s Hospital, St. Remy