CINCINNATI, OHIO.- The Taft Museum of Art presents An Impressionist Eye: Painting and Sculpture from the Philip and Janice Levin Foundation, on view through August 28, 2005. Forever changing the course of art history, the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists depicted everyday city and country life in a style that explored the transitory effects of color, light and atmosphere. Working in the last three decades of the 19th century, and reaching into the 20th, they found a public for their innovative art, which stood outside French traditional tastes and state-run exhibitions. This exhibition of approximately 30 paintings and sculptures includes works by Pierre Bonnard, Mary Cassatt, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Pablo Picasso, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Henri Toulouse-Lautrec. It also highlights the distinctly personal character of the private collection assembled by the Levins over a period of 40 years. This intimate, private collection holds works by some of the most beloved artists of all time, including Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre Bonnard, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and Edouard Vuillard.
The exhibition features 30 celebrated European paintings and sculptures from the 19th and 20th centuries. These works are sure to engage the senses. Viewers will find this exhibition interesting in two ways.
First, this exhibition provides a rare opportunity to see the striking and intensely personal art collection of Philip and Janice Levin. Some of the works have rarely been published, and many have not been exhibited in decades.
Organized by the American Federation of Arts. Presenting sponsor: Cincinnsti Bell. Supporting sponsors: the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the Warrington Exhibition Endowment, Docents of the Taft Museum of Art, and Lynne Meyers Gordon. Season media sponsor: WCPO. Fine Arts Fund partner: Procter & Gamble
