The Snite Museum of Art announces gifts of six important American and British paintings
John Henry Twachtman (American, 18531902), The Chicago Worlds Fair, Illinois Building, ca. 1893. Oil on canvas. Gift of Ann Uhry Abrams, PhD 2020.029.001.
NOTRE DAME, IN
.-The Snite Museum of Art at the University of Notre Dame is delighted to announce that it is the recipient of six noteworthy paintings from the late 18th to the early 20th centuries that will significantly augment the Museums holdings in American and British art. The Museum is deeply grateful for these gifts, many by donors with long relationships to the Museum and Notre Dame, states Joseph Antenucci Becherer, Director of the Snite Museum of Art. The importance of our 18th.-, 19th- and 20th-century collections have been greatly enhanced with these works.
Detail from Robert Henri’s “Kathleen,”1924, oil on board. Huntington Museum of Art (John Spurlock)
This spring, the Lightner Museum in St. Augustine celebrates the evocative, timeless beauty of late 19th and early 20th century American art with two exhibitions of American Impressionist paintings.
American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection, features paintings from the acclaimed collection of the Huntington Museum of Art in West Virginia. A companion exhibition,
St. Augustine in a New Light: American Impressionism from the Collection of the Lightner Museum is curated from the Lightner’s own collection. The exhibitions will run from April 8, 2021-July 5, 2021.
American Impressionism: Treasures from the Daywood Collection showcases work from a transitional time in American art when painters abandoned the rigors of academic styles and subjects. Inspired by their European counterparts, they turned to intimate scenes of the cultivated countryside and fig