Degas & America: The Early Collectors is the first museum exhibition
to explore the history of America's love affair with Edgar Degas' art. The
show includes 81 works by the famed French Impressionist that were
acquired in America by leading collectors and museums at the turn of the
20th century.
Because American collectors embraced Degas' work in all
media - oils, pastels, drawings, prints and sculpture - and from all periods
of his career, the exhibition offers a first-rate survey of his work. His early
academic drawings, his engaging portraits and his celebrated images of the
ballet, horseracing and of the human figure are all represented in this
landmark exhibition.
Degas & America will travel to The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, where
it will be shown June 16 - September 9, 2001. The show is not only the
first survey of Degas' work to be presented in either the Southeast or
Minneapolis, but it is also the largest Degas exhibition ever mounted in the
Southeast.
Adult and Family audio tours are available for this show and are included in
the price of admission.
This exhibition is organized by the High Museum of Art, Atlanta in
collaboration with The Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
IMAGE:
Edgar Degas,
Three Dancers in Yellow Skirts, ca. 1891,
32 x 25 inches,
Oil on canvas,
UCLA Hammer Museum,
Los Angeles, California,
Armand Hammer Collection
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