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Baltimore Museum of Art to Explore Cézanne’s Influence on American Art

Marsden Hartley - "Mont Saint Victoire", 1927 - Oil on canvas - Private Collection of Elaine and Henry Kaufman.

BALTIMORE, MD.- The Baltimore Museum of Art’s new
exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, brings together 16 dazzling
landscapes, still lifes, and portraits by the French master with more than 80
paintings, watercolors, and photographs
by artists such as Max Weber,
Alfred Stieglitz, and Marsden Hartley to show Cézanne’s profound impact on
American artists at the beginning of the 20th-century. Along with the BMA’s two
great Cézanne paintings, “Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry” and
“Bathers”, the exhibition showcases outstanding works from public and private
collections throughout the U.S., including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art
Institute of Chicago, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. This nationally traveling
exhibition is a special ticketed event that includes complimentary audio tours
for both adults and kids. “Cézanne and American Modernism” is
co-organized by the Montclair Art Museum and The Baltimore Museum of Art and is
on view in Baltimore February 14 through May 23, 2010.