by We’ve previously been to the New Britain Museum of American Art, but I saw they were having an exhibition on Impressionism while I was in the area, so of course I made a stop. The exhibit is Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
As is probably obvious from the title, the small exhibit features paintings loaned from the Los Angles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Of course, while in the museum, I also sought out Impressionist paintings from their permanent collection.
The exhibit takes its name from a New York Times article discussing the arrival of Impressionism in America in 1886, when a large-scale exhibition of French Impressionist works was held.
They said that although the paintings were often criticized for their “blue grass, violently green skies, and water with the coloring of a rainbow,” Americans would nevertheless benefit from studying the “vitality and beauty” in the works.
The cover photo is Cove, Maine, circa 1907-1910, Maurice Prendergast. It is on loan from LACMA.
