Canada and Impressionism's European Tour Launches this Summer
Helen McNicoll, "Sunny September," 1913
oil on canvas, 36" × 42" (private collection, Toronto)
The National Gallery of Canada’s groundbreaking exhibition, Canada and Impressionism: New Horizons, will begin its European tour in Munich in July.
The show, curated by Katerina Atanassova, the gallery's senior curator of Canadian Art, introduces Canadian artists who advanced the cause of Impressionism in Canada at the turn of the 20th century.
Many Canadian Impressionists have remained unknown beyond national boundaries.
“This is a missing chapter in the history of world Impressionism that needed to be explored and explained to audiences abroad and at home,” says Atanassova. “Although recognized individually for their achievements on the Canadian art scene, the contributions of the Canadian Impressionists as a whole remain not adequately contextualized. This exhibition aims to fill those gaps.”
The show features approximately 120 paintings by some 35 Canadian artists, drawn from public and private collections in Canada and abroad. The exhibition is presented in collaboration with the Kunsthalle München in Munich, the Fondation de l’hermitage, in Lausanne, Switzerland, and the Musée Fabre in Montpellier, France.
It will be presented in Munich from July 19 to Nov. 17, 2019, in Switzerland from Jan. 31 to May 24, 2020, and in France from June 13 to Sept. 27, 2020.
It opens later in 2020 in Ottawa, enhanced by archival and photographic materials, works on paper and sculptures.
Source: National Gallery of Canada
