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Art by American women constitutes eight percent of the Terra's collection and includes oil and watercolor paintings, pastels, and various types of prints. (updated 2/2019, following deaccessions)
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Mary Fairchild MacMonnies (later Low)
Date: 1895
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1987.23
Text Entries: Originally one of a pair of large paintings of mythological female subjects, The Breeze may have been inspired by MacMonnies' neighbor in Giverny, the dancer Isadora Duncan. Mary MacMonnies had only recently embarked on large scale painting with a commission to copy two frescoes by Italian Renaissance artist Sandro Botticelli housed in the Louvre; the delicate pastel palette and decorative quality of The Breeze reflects this experience as well as the influence of Macmonnies' contemporary, the French painter Pierre Puvis de Chavannes.