The Terra Foundation for American Art partnered with the Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo to create an unprecedented exhibition devoted to American Impressionism. The village of Giverny, home to French Impressionist Claude Monet, welcomed hundreds of artists for more than thirty years, from 1885 to 1915. Though Claude Monet did not encourage younger artists to follow him to Giverny, the village quickly became a popular destination for international artists and students. These younger artists, most of whom were American, adapted their art according to the impact of daily life in the village and the proximity of Monet, creating a movement that would come to be known as American Impressionism. +
Bringing together 50 paintings from the Terra Foundation as well as numerous works by Claude Monet and American artists, all painted in Giverny, the exhibition explored the impact of one village on the evolution of impressionism. Major paintings by Monet provided context for works by American artists, most of whom were almost unknown in Japan, introducing American Impressionism to Japanese audiences. Traveling to three Japanese museums, the exhibition ultimately reached more than 250,000 visitors.
Dates & Venues
October 9–November 28, 2010
Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art, Kitakyushu, Japan
December 7, 2010–February 17, 2011
Bunkamura Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
February 25–April 10, 2011
Okayama Prefectural Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Works of Art from the Terra Foundation Collection
SECTION ONE: Landscapes around Giverny
- Philip Leslie Hale, Landscape with Figure, 1888
- Willard Leroy Metcalf, The Lily Pond, 1887
- Willard Leroy Metcalf, The River Epte, Giverny, 1887
- Lilla Cabot Perry, Autumn Afternoon, Giverny, between 1905 and 1909
- Louis Ritter, Willows and Stream, Giverny, 1887
- Theodore Robinson, Winter Landscape, 1889
- Theodore Robinson, From the Hill, Giverny, between 1889 and 1892
- Theodore Robinson, Study for ‘Vallée de la Seine vue des hauteurs de Giverny’, 1892
- Guy Rose, Giverny Hillside, 1890–95
- Theodore Wendel, Brook, Giverny, 1887
- Theodore Wendel, Flowering Fields, Giverny, 1889
SECTION TWO: Village Life
- John Leslie Breck, Garden at Giverny (in Monet’s Garden), between 1887 and 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Autumn, Giverny (The New Moon), 1889
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Studies of an Autumn Day, 1891
- John Leslie Breck, Morning Fog and Sun, 1892
- Dawson Dawson-Watson, Giverny, 1888
- Dawson Dawson-Watson, Giverny: Road Looking West toward Church, c. 1890
- Louis Paul Dessar, Peasant Woman and Haystacks, Giverny, 1892
- Thomas Buford Meteyard, Giverny, Moonlight, between 1890 and 1893
- Theodore Robinson, Père Trognon and his Daughter at the Bridge, 1891
- Theodore Robinson, Blossoms at Giverny, 1891–92
- Theodore Robinson, The Wedding March, 1892
SECTION THREE: Friends and Family
- Theodore Earl Butler, The Artist’s Children, James and Lili, 1896
- Theodore Earl Butler, Lili Butler Reading at the Butler House, Giverny, 1908
- Theodore Earl Butler, The Card Players, 1896
- William Howard Hart, Portrait of Theodore Earl Butler, 1897
- Frederick MacMonnies, Self-Portrait, 1896
- Frederick MacMonnies, Mabel Conkling, 1904
- Frederick MacMonnies, Atelier at Giverny, 1896 or 1897
- Lilla Cabot Perry, By the Brook, Giverny, France (Woman in a Pink Dress), 1909
- Lilla Cabot Perry, Self-Portrait, between 1889 and 1896
SECTION FOUR: The ‘Giverny Group’
- Karl Anderson, Tennis Court at Hôtel Baudy, 1910
- Frederick Carl Frieseke, Lilies, by 1911
- Frederick Carl Frieseke, Breakfast in the Garden, c. 1911
- Frederick Carl Frieseke, Lady in a Garden, c. 1912
- Richard Emil (or Edward) Miller, The Pool, c. 1910
- Louis Ritman, Early Morning, 1912–15
Publication
Bourguignon, Katherine M. and Shunsuke Kijima. Monet and the Artists of Giverny: the Beginning of American Impressionism [English and Japanese edition]. Fukuoka, Japan: The Nishinippon Shimbun, 2010.
