Julius Stewart, An Idle Afternoon
Currently on loan to the Nassau County Museum of Art
Alice Duncan
Senior Director
aduncan@gpgalleryny.com
The focus of the present exhibition is a collection of art from the mid 1880s through World War I, all by American artists who had lived, studied, or worked in Paris.
The other common denominator is that these artists embrace that moment’s emerging modern viewpoint: the works are non-narrative. From Beaux-Arts to Impressionists to Ash Can the works collected reflect a taste for classic American images of beauty whether depicting women, children, landscape, or still life.
Among the artists represented are John Singer Sargent, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Maria Oakey Dewing, Edward Potthast, William Glackens, and Everett Shinn.
John White Alexander
Etude (Reflections, Sunlight in Mirror; Interior, Bess Reading; Woman Reading; Study of Sunlight) 1894
Oil on canvas
Maria Oakey Dewing
Carnations ( Carnations in a Satsuma Vase) ca. 1901
Oil on canvas
In an original Stanford White frame
