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Cheekwood Museum of Art features “American Impressionists in the Garden”

Childe Hassam (1859-1935) - Reading, 1888 - Oil on panel,14 ¼ x 18 inches Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Gift of Mr. and Mrs. R.B. Davenport, III

NASHVILLE,
TN
– On view through September 5 Cheekwood Botanical
Garden & Museum of Art will present The American Impressionists
in the
Garden
, an exhibition exploring the theme of the garden in American
art and
society of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
 
The exhibition features approximately
forty paintings depicting European and American gardens by American
Impressionist artists along with four bronze sculptures created by
American
artists for the garden.