Past Exhibition

American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection

This painting depicts a white house in a lush green setting. The house has dark windows and a red chimney, partially obscured by trees that cast dappled shadows on the house's facade. The front door appears to be open. A light brown path runs parallel to the house at the bottom of the image, and small gray steps lead up the grass towards the house. The color palette includes vibrant greens for the foliage and a light blue for the sky behind the house. The brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, creating a soft and textured appearance in the trees, grass, and building.
Dennis Miller Bunker, Roadside Cottage, 1889, oil on canvas, Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz, 2007.94.1

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This painting depicts a white house in a lush green setting. The house has dark windows and a red chimney, partially obscured by trees that cast dappled shadows on the house's facade. The front door appears to be open. A light brown path runs parallel to the house at the bottom of the image, and small gray steps lead up the grass towards the house. The color palette includes vibrant greens for the foliage and a light blue for the sky behind the house. The brushstrokes are loose and impressionistic, creating a soft and textured appearance in the trees, grass, and building.
Dennis Miller Bunker, Roadside Cottage, 1889, oil on canvas, Gift of Raymond J. and Margaret Horowitz, 2007.94.1

Overview: 49 American impressionist and realist paintings and works on paper from the Margaret and Raymond Horowitz collection were presented, including works by William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, George Bellows, Maurice Prendergast, William Glackens, and Theodore Robinson. This was the first time the collection had been on exhibition since it was shown at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1973.

Organization: The National Gallery of Art organized the exhibition. Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., senior curator of American and British paintings at the National Gallery of Art, was the curator.

Attendance: 112,524

Catalog: American Impressionism and Realism: The Margaret and Raymond Horowitz Collection, by Nicolai Cikovsky Jr., with Nancy Anderson et al. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art, 1998.

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