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Featuring more than 90 prints and key paintings on loan from institutions including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and the National Gallery of Art. Innovative Impressions is the first in-depth study to focus on the prints of these three artists together. It explores their remarkable graphic work and the techniques they developed through collaboration and experimentation.
Innovative Impressions highlights the artists’ working processes by including multiple states, or versions, of several prints, allowing viewers to appreciate the experimental techniques through which the images were developed.
The exhibition also includes examples of Cassatt’s 1890–91 series of ten color prints—one of the most significant achievements of her career–as well as several prints that have rarely been exhibited, and a group of little-known monotypes by Pissarro, who was probably inspired by Degas to take up this technique.
“They were an unlikely trio of artists, from very different backgrounds,” said exhibition curator Sarah Lees. “Yet they learned from each other and from other artists in developing unusual approaches to making prints, especially when they worked together in 1879 and 1880. After their publication project fell through, they continued to keep up with each other, although sometimes their relations became more competitive than collaborative. But this exchange of ideas seems to have played a significant role in their creative processes.”
Innovative Impressions is the centerpiece in Philbrook’s “Summer in France,” a full season of programs celebrating the art, food, wine, and culture of France. Museum visitors will enjoy films on the lawn (Moulin Rouge, Ratatouille), picnicking, chats with historians, special celebrations (Bastille Day, Tour de France), and much more.
As a special opportunity for Philbrook Members, the Museum has partnered with Tulsa Global Alliance to give away a 7-day trip for 2 to Tulsa’s French sister city, Amiens.
Innovative Impressions also boasts a fully-operational Print Stu- dio staffed by artists-in-residence producing new work on site. Guests can watch them work, make prints, take part in special events, and buy the work. A fully illustrated catalogue accompanies the exhibition, with essays by Richard R. Brettell, a leading scholar of Impressionism and expert on Pissarro, and by Sarah Lees, Ruth G. Hardman Curator of European Art at Philbrook, tracing the development of the three artists’ work.
Innovative Impressions is supported by local and national Exhibition Series Sponsors and, in part, by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts.
Philbrook Museum of Art is open 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and 9 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday, Philbrook Downtown, 116 E. M.B. Brady St., is open 11 a.m.-5 p.m. Wednesday through Sunday, and 11 a.m.-9 p.m. Friday. Philbrook admission runs $9 for adults, $7 for seniors and university students; Philbrook Members and youth 17 and younger are always free. Philbrook Downtown admission runs $7 for adults, $5 for seniors and university students; Philbrook Members and youth 17 and younger are always free.