VMFA 'captures beauty' of American works

"Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection," is upon view through Sept. 18 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). The exhibit showcases works from single of the largest holdings of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings still in private hands, according to Michael Brand, VMFA director. Thirty-five paintings, watercolors, pastels and statuarys will be on display by dint of some of the nation's leading Impressionist artists--Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent--as well as leading Realist artists--George Bellows, Winslow Homer and Robert Henri.

individual of the most important paintings upon view is Martin Johnson Heade's "Two Magnolias and a bourgeon on Teal Velvet," which is from a well-known series of magnolia studies created by means of the artist.

Mr and Mr McGlothlin of Austin, TX have assembled their collection above the past decade. "A sparkling watercolor by the agency of Maurice Prendergast radiates the power with which [the McGlothlins] have exercised their passion for collecting since the mid-1990s," says Brand.

"Their freshly acquired Sargent oil portrait of Mm Eugenia Errazuriz, individual of the great beauties of the late 19th hundred attests to their own regard with affection of the beautiful in American Art. Now to be shared for the first time with visitors to VMFA, the American Impressionists and Realist pictures in the exhibition will invite repeated discovery."

exhibit FACTS

Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection

from one side Sept. 18

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Address: 200 North Blvd

Richmond, VA

Phone: 804-204-2704

Web site: www.vmfa.state.va.us

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