Impressionism Show Going to Texas

The Art Institute of Chicago has organized a special exhibition of 90 of its Impressionist and Post-Impressionist compositions for the Kimbell Art Museum in 2008.

The Kimbell Art Museum announced on November 2, 2007 that while the Art Institute of Chicago continues its reinstallation and expansion designed by architect Renzo Piano, it will be sending some 90 Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works exclusively to the Fort Worth, Texas museum next year. The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago will be on view at the Kimbell from June 29 to November 2, 2008. The exhibition will include the follwing compositions:

• Paris Street, Rainy Day (1877) by Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894);
• Madame Cézanne in a Yellow Chair (1893/95) and The Bathers (1899/1904) by Paul Cézanne (1839-1906);
• Yellow Dancers (In the Wings) (1874/76) and The Millinery Shop (1884/90) by Edgar Degas (1834-1917);
• The Arlésiennes (1888) and The Ancestors of Tehamana (1893) by Paul Gauguin (1848-1903);
• Self-Portrait (1887) and The Bedroom (1889) by Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890);
• The Races at Longchamp (1866) and Woman Reading (1878/79) by Edouard Manet (1832-1883);
• paintings of wheatstacks, London and water lilies by Claude Monet (1840-1926);
• Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1875), Acrobats at the Cirque Fernando (1879) and Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919); and
• Moulin de la Galette (1889) by Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901).

Monet's Beach at Sainte-Adresse (1867), A Sunday on La Grande Jatte (1884-86) by Georges-Pierre Seurat (1859-1891), van Gogh's The Drinkers (1890) and other important holdings of the AIC will not be making the trip south.