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American Impressionism 2014-15

Terra loans to Une nouvelle lumière : les américains face à l’impressionnisme, Musée des impressionnismes Giverny: March 28–June 29, 2014; American Impressionism: a New Vision, 1880-1900, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh, July 19–October 19, 2014; Impresionismo Americano, Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid, November 4, 2014–February 1, 2015

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The Sisters
Frank Benson
Date: 1899
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.11
Text Entries: After training at Boston's School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Frank Benson continued his studies in Paris at the Académie Julian from 1883 to 1886, returning to teach at his alma mater in 1889. A diversity of subject matter, wide-ranging experimentation, and masterful synthesis of impressionistic and academic techniques marked Benson's work during his years with The Ten. Although he enjoyed the prestige of exhibiting with the group in New York, Benson's independent reputation suffered outside of the Boston area. Along with Joseph DeCamp, he was characterized by a New York critic as one of "The Tarbellites," artists whose style and subjects were associated with fellow Bostonian Edmund Tarbell's poetic interiors. The Sisters is a "spontaneous" portrait of Elisabeth and Sylvia, Benson's two youngest daughters, playing at their summer home in Maine. One of the artist's most impressionistic works of art, the painting was proclaimed a "triumph" when first exhibited in Boston and later won silver medals at exhibitions in the United States and in Paris. Benson's award-winning painting was shown at The Ten's 1901 Annual Show in New York.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.1
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.2
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
Studies of an Autumn Day
John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.3
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.4
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.5
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.6
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.7
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.8
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.9
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.10
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.
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John Leslie Breck
Date: 1891
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1989.4.11
Text Entries: John Leslie Breck's early work was often large in scale and dark in color. He dramatically altered his artistic approach, however, after his sojourn to France in the mid-1880s. Executed over a period of three days in the Normandy village of Giverny, Breck's small studies are an analysis of atmospheric changes from dawn to dusk. They were first shown in Boston in 1893 unframed and side-by-side in an exhibition along with the much larger "Morning Fog and Sun." Most likely begun in the outdoors but finished in the studio, these paintings were left unvarnished by the artist, enhancing the freshness and immediacy of Breck's subject matter: the natural cycle of time, movement, and change.