Americans in Florence. Sargent and the impressionists of the New World

02/03/2012 - 15/07/2012

Florence's Palazzo Strozzi is preparing to celebrate the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Amerigo Vespucci with the exhibition Americans in Florence. Sargent and the impressionists of the New World.

The exhibition underscores the close relationship between the American impressionist painters and Italy and especially Florence, from the last decades of the nineteenth century until the early twentieth century.

The heart of the exhibition is made up of works by artists that stayed in Florence, including a few representatives of the American impressionist group known as the Ten American Painters: William Merrit Chase, John Henry Twachman and Frederick Childe Hassam.

In addition to these, there are personalities like Franck Duveneck, who played an important role in the relationships between American artists and locals, gathering about him a school that would go down in history as the "Duveneck Boys", and a collection of works by painters who, despite not being impressionists in the strictest sense, had a fundamental influence on the subsequent generations: Winslow Homer, William Morris Hunt, John La Farge and Thomas Eakins, and the great forerunners, including John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and James Abbott McNeill Whistler.

Americans in Florence. Sargent and the impressionists of the New World

Palazzo Strozzi
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50123 Firenze - Italy
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