Verostko Center to open impressionism exhibit
Nathan J. Shaulis
This painting by Margaret Fisher Prout, called The Pond, is a part of the impressionist exhibit at the Verostko Center for the Arts in Latrobe.
Under the Willow, a painting from French artist聽Pierre-Eug猫ne Mont茅zin, is a part of the impressionist exhibit at the Verostko Center for the Arts in Latrobe.
Nathan J. Shaulis
The painting Haystacks by French artist Victor Alfred Paul Vignon is a part of the impressionist exhibit at the Verostko Center for the Arts in Latrobe.
Thompson
The Verostko Center for the Arts in Latrobe will open the exhibit 鈥淚mpressionist Legacies: The Michael and Aimee Rusinko Kakos Collection鈥� today with a public reception from 5 to 7 p.m.
The exhibition features a selection of impressionist and post-impressionist paintings recently gifted to St. Vincent College on behalf of Michael and Aimee Rusinko Kakos. Rarely seen by the public in decades, the collection features 88 works completed by 61 artists who worked alongside those whose names are synonymous with impressionism and the modernist styles that immediately followed, but have largely been omitted from art historical surveys.
Highlights include a portrait by Sir George Clausen (The Novel, 1879), two works by Victor Vignon (Haystacks and The Hamlet) and a Brittany village scene by Victor Charreton (Breton Lacemakers, 1922-1926). Among several examples by Post-Impressionist luminaries is a still life by Suzanne Valadon (Bouquet of Roses in a Shell, ca. 1919), a stunning portrait by Henri Lebasque of his daughter (Marthe Lebasque at V茅zillon, 1912), two garden-based paintings by Maximillien Luce and four works by Georges d鈥橢spagnat informed by Fauvist techniques. The collection boasts representative works by artists who helped introduce Impressionism to England, including Arthur Hacker (A Quiet Cove, Girl Canoeing, 1900), Stanhope Forbes (High Water 鈥� Gweek, Cornwall, 1931) and Mark Fisher (Corner of the Orchard, Hatfield Heath, ca. 1920).
鈥淚mpressionist Legacies鈥� is organized into three broader categorical subjects that animate artists working in the pivotal years surrounding the turn of the 20th century. With the aim of capturing moments in real time, artists documented the fleeting effects of light on water, the pastoral environs outside Paris and London and the hidden glories of daily life manifested in activities of labor and leisure. An additional section features paintings influenced by impressionism after World War II.
The exhibition is accompanied by a 128-page, full-color catalog featuring an introduction by Dr. Jennifer A. Thompson, the Gloria and Jack Drosdick Curator of European Painting and Sculpture and Curator of the John G. Johnson Collection at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
On Thursday, Sept. 14, Thompson will offer a lecture entitled 鈥淏eyond Paris: British Impressionists in the Rusinko Kakos Collection.鈥� The lecture will begin at 7 p.m. in the Fred M. Rogers Center on the St. Vincent campus. Tickets are free. Reservations can be made by visiting www.verostkocenter.org.
The Verostko Center is located on the second floor of the Dale P. Latimer Library on the college蘑菇视频 campus, and the exhibit will remain open through Friday, Nov. 17. Hours are 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Thursday, and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. on Friday.