Public parks, private gardens : Paris to Provence / Colta Ives ; [edited by Cynthia Clark and Emily Walter].

By:

Ives, Colta Feller [author.]

Contributor(s):

Material type: Text

TextPublisher: New York : The Metropolitan Museum of Art, [2018]Distributor: New Haven ; London : Distributed by Yale University Press Copyright date: ©2018Description: xi, 204 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 27 cmContent type:

text
still image

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

9781588395849
1588395847

Subject(s):

Genre/Form:

Exhibition catalogs.

DDC classification:

709.03/46 23

LOC classification:

N8234.P3 I94 2018

Summary: The transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era's great Impressionist artists. This exhibition includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cezanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, who painted parks and gardens as part of contemporary life. The author provides new insights into these works and that specificaly creative period in France's history.

List(s) this item appears in: Impressionist gardens

Holdings ( 1 )
Title notes ( 4 )

Holdings
Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode	Item holds
Circulating Books	Pennsylvania Horticultural Society	New Books	N8234.P3 I94 2018 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		3182700021990

Total holds: 0

Published in conjunction with "Public Parks, Private Gardens: Paris to Provence," on view at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 12 through July 29, 2018.

Editors taken from title page verso.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The transformation of Paris during the 19th century into a city of tree-lined boulevards and public parks both redesigned the capital and inspired the era's great Impressionist artists. This exhibition includes masterworks by artists such as Bonnard, Cassatt, Cezanne, Corot, Daumier, Van Gogh, Manet, Matisse, Monet and Seurat, who painted parks and gardens as part of contemporary life. The author provides new insights into these works and that specificaly creative period in France's history.