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10 March 2010 - 19th Century American Artists and the Grand Tour
Italy had long been the most popular destination for Americans prior to the Civil War, but by the 1870’s, France had become the country of choice. For it then seemed that every young American artist yearned to embark on a Grand Tour of Europe and study in Paris. In fact, approximately twenty-two hundred were [...]

24 January 2010 - 19th Century American Artists and the Grand Tour
Eighteenth-century American artists relied on European art long before they set sail for the Continent. Mezzotints after French and English portraits were imported by the hundreds during the eighteenth century and supplied the colonists with what was often their only contact with fine art. John Singleton Copley wrote to Benjamin West on November 12, 1766: [...]

1 September 2009 - New England Impressionist Artists Paint the Coastal Landscape
June 25- October 12, 2009 Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT October 24- January 31, 2010 The Portland Museum of Art chronicles the development of impressionist Connecticut and early modernist Maine with 73 features works drawn from the collections of the Portland Museum of Art and the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut. The Call [...]

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