John Singer Sargent, Fishing for Oysters at Cancale, 1878. Oil paint on canvas; 16-1/8 x 24 in. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Gift of Miss Mary Appleton, 35.708. Photograph © 2020 Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Impressionism's Summers
In this image-filled lecture, Annette Stott, Professor of Art History at the University of Denver, will discuss some of the many summer artists’ colonies the Impressionists created or transformed in Europe and the United States. American artists studying in Paris during the academic year “escaped" to the countryside every year for several months.
Learn where they went, why, how they lived, their relationships with local populations, and how this experience shaped the development of American Impressionism. In addition, French, Dutch, Italian, and other art colonies inspired American Impressionists and their patrons to create their own summer colonies back home. We will look at several examples to create a fuller understanding of the impact the French experience had on American artists and their patrons.
Drawn to France is a course with four sessions:
- November 30, 2021: Whistler to Cassatt: The Making of an Exhibition
- January 4, 2022: Impressionism's Summers
- January 25, 2022: Mary, Louisine, and Bertha: Three American Women who put Impressionism on the Map
- March 1, 2022: Henry Ossawa Tanner and Black Artists in Paris, c. 1900
This course will take place at the museum in Sharp Auditorium, and online via livestream.
To register for the in-person course in Sharp Auditorium, please purchase an onsite ticket. To register for the livestream of the course, please purchase an online ticket.
You can purchase an onsite ticket for individual sessions or the full course, or an online ticket for individual sessions or the full course.
All course registrants will receive a link to the recorded course session, which will be available to view for two weeks after the course. You do not need to purchase both tickets to access a recording of the course.
Annette Stott, Ph.D., is a professor of art history at the University of Denver, specializing in American art of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. She has made a particular study of American artists in Holland during this period, with the book Holland Mania: The Unknown Dutch Period in American Art and Culture (1998), the exhibition Dutch Utopia: American Artists in Holland, 1880-1914 (2009), and many articles, edited books, and book chapters. She teaches all aspects of American art at the University of Denver where she has also served as past Director of the School of Art and Art History and past Director of the DU-Iliff School of Theology Joint Ph.D. in the Study of Religion. Her current work concerns American Christian gravestones.
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