A WORK BY FRANCOIS GEROME OF PORTE SAINTE-DENIS, currently on view at Wiscasset Bay Gallery.
A new exhibit titled “American and French Impressionism” will open at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery on July 7 with a reception from 5-7 p.m. The event is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.
Among the American works on display is Chauncey Foster Ryder’s “Clouds Over the Valley,” depicting a figure with a pair of oxen hauling logs in the foreground against a feathery sky and rolling landscape. Ryder’s paintings are in many major museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum and Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Echoing Ryder’s subtle palette and painterly brushstrokes is a view of Washington Square Park by New York impressionist Bela de Tirefort. The artist’s use of grays, blues and whites captures the Greenwich Village icon on a snowy winter’s day with figures sheltered under umbrellas.
French Impressionists works featured in the show include many views of the streets of Paris in spring and fall abound in the exhibition including a work by Francois Gerome of Porte Sainte-Denis with horses and carriages traversing the boulevards as twilight approaches. Other French Impressionists on view include Carolus-Duran, Jean Salabet, Jean-Auguste Vyboud, Pauline Grandjean and Georges Rouault.
Additional American Impressionists works are on view by Gordon Benjamin Mess, Andre Gisson, William Potter and Ethel Louise Paddock.
“American and French Impressionism” will be on display at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery through Aug. 5. For more information call (207) 882-7682 or visit the gallery’s website at wiscassetbaygallery.com. The Wiscasset Bay Gallery is open daily from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and is located at 67 Main St. in Wiscasset village.
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