2015-10-28

2168 - 20160117 - U.S.A. - WICHITA-KANSAS - Scenery, Story, Spirit: American Painting and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - 26.09.2015-17.01.2016

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Childe Hassam, The Manhattan Club, 1891. Oil on canvas, 18 1/4 x 22 1/8 inches. Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California, Gift of Mrs. Sterling Morton to the Preston Morton Collection
 
Santa Barbara is considered the American Riviera. The region attracts wealth and beauty--with stunning private art collections. Carefully developed over decades, Santa Barbara’s museum now holds a phenomenal American art collection, and its treasures will be featured in this special exhibition in Wichita this fall.
The show offers a compelling overview of 19th- and early 20th-century American art. It showcases 52 paintings and eight sculptures by some of America's greatest artists.
Discover:
• landscapes by Albert Bierstadt, Thomas Cole, and Frederic Church,
• narrative paintings and street scenes by Winslow Homer, Childe Hassam, and George Bellows,
• portraits by William Merritt Chase and John Singer Sargent,
• and scenes from the frontier of the American West.
 
 
 
Wichita Art Museum - Scenery, Story, Spirit: American Painting and Sculpture from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art - 26.09.2015 - 17.01.2016