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E. Charlton Fortune s Feeding Chickens, Monterey, will be among the artwork on display at the San Antonio Museum of Art this summer.Courtesy, San Antonio Museum of Art
When it comes to Impressionism, it s the Monets and Renoirs who tend to get all the attention. But a decade after the Impressionists first appeared in a Paris exhibition in 1874, it took hold in the United States, creating a broad art movement that extended from coast to coast.
A new retrospective at the San Antonio Museum of Art explores how this French-born style influenced American artists with America’s Impressionism: Echoes of a Revolution. More than 70 works, a mix of both public and private collections, have been compiled as part of the new exhibition, which is on view at SAMA June 11–September 5.
Fig. 1.
The Whistling Boy by Frank Duveneck (1848–1919), 1872. Initialed and
dated “FD [in monogram]. Munich. 1872” in monogram at lower left. Oil on canvas, 27 7/8 by 21 1/8 inches.
Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio, gift of the artist; all photographs courtesy of the Cincinnati Art Museum.
Although it would be foolish to suggest that the influential and wildly productive Jean-Léon Gérôme is lost to history, it is safe to say that the great academician is perhaps less widely known today than his students Thomas Eakins and Mary Cassatt. And while it would be equally foolish to suggest that Frank Duveneck is but a footnote to his more recognizable students, such as John Henry Twachtman, the Kentucky-born artist is not the name he was in his day. Reviewing a 1972 show at Manhattan’s Chapellier Galleries, critic John Canaday described Duveneck as “a painter who promised to establish a major position in American art but stopped halfway through his career and settled for a mi