Paris 1874

My big rakeaway from the National Gallery/Musee d’Orsay’s “Paris 1874” exhibition is that Paris 1874 wasn’t such a big deal after all. The show’s premise trades on the popular conception that the first Impressionist show in 1874 marked an almost cataclysmic moment when the Impressionists broke from the official Salon and charted the new course […]

D.C. Notes

Random thoughts from a brief visit to the National Gallery of Art last Saturday (3/23/24): The addition and integration of works from the Corcoran Gallery give the National Gallery one of the strongest, if not the strongest, collections of American art in the country. Despite the softening of the auction market for works in this […]