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Donald Judd was a major figure in the Minimalist art movement in the 1960s when he and others sought to create a depersonalized art in which the physical properties of space, scale, and materials were explored as phenomena of interest on their own. Judd’s use of color in three print series dating from 1988 to 1993 are on view along with a recent acquisition, Untitled (1993). Judd’s prints are compared and contrasted with prints by his peer, Sol LeWitt. Although identified as a Minimalist artist, LeWitt helped establish Conceptualism as one of the dominant movements of the postwar era. LeWitt’s prints from the early 1970s, made at Kathan Brown’s then-fledgling Crown Point Press, are included as well as his color woodcut, Arcs from Four Corners (1986). 

Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay puts forth nearly 100 works by the famous masters who called France their home during the mid-19th century and from whose midst arose one of the most original and recognizable of all artistic styles, Impressionism.

This exhibition begins with paintings by naturalist artists such as Bouguereau and Courbet, and presents American expatriate James McNeill Whistler’s Arrangement in Gray and Black, known to many as “Whistler’s Mother.” Early work by Manet, Monet, Renoir and Sisley are on view, as well as a selection of Degas’ paintings that depict images of the ballet, the racetrack and life in “la Belle Époque.”

Notable works include:
The Fife Player by Edouard Manet (1866)
Family Reunion by Frédéric Bazille (1867)
Arrangement in Gray and Black No. 1 or Portrait of the Artist’s Mother by James McNeill Whistler (1871)
The Birth of Venus by William Adolphe Bouguereau (1879)
The Cradle by Berthe Morisot (1872)
Saint-Lazare Station by Claude Monet (1877)
The Swing by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1876)
Rue Montorgueil, Paris. Festival of June 30, 1878 by Claude Monet (1878)
Racehorses Before the Stands by Edgar Degas (1866–1868)
The Dancing Lesson by Edgar Degas (1873–1876)
Portraits at the Stock Exchange by Edgar Degas (1878–1879) 

Van Gogh, Gauguin, Cézanne and Beyond: Post-Impressionist Masterpieces from the Musée d’Orsay presents 120 of the Musée d’Orsay’s most famous late Impressionist paintings including those by Monet and Renoir, followed by the more individualistic styles of the early modern masters including Cézanne, Gauguin, Lautrec and van Gogh, and the Nabis painters, Bonnard and Vuillard. The exhibition will also provide a unique look at the Orsay’s spectacular collection of Pointillist painters including work by Seurat and Signac.

Notable works in this exhibition include:

• A Dance in the Country by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1883)
• The Circus by George Seurat (1891)
• Self Portrait by Vincent van Gogh (1887)
• Starry Night over the Rhone by Vincent van Gogh (1888)
• The Artist’s Bedroom at Arles by Vincent van Gogh (1889)
• Portrait of the Artist with the Yellow Christ by Paul Gauguin (1889)
• Tahitian Women, On the Beach by Paul Gauguin (1891)
• Still Life with Onions by Paul Cézanne (1895)
• The Snake Charmer by Henri Rousseau (1907)