Many of the Americans went to Paris to study in the 1880s and absorbed the new style (impressionism) there. |
Molly kept house for him when she was older. But when she was younger, she was quite a rakish young woman. She had an affair with a married man in the 1890s that was the talk of Cincinnati. |
These paintings originally were painted for people who just wanted to relax and escape the realities of their world, like pollution and overpopulation. And they still offer us a tremendous escape. They're really just luscious paintings. There's nothing that can substitute for art that is about sensuality and beauty, and that's what we're offering. |
They have this fantastic nugget of historical material from the Gilded Age. It's a wonderful, small overview of American painting from about 1870 to 1915. |