Paintings, photographs compared at Carnegie
PITTSBURGH — “Impressionism in a New Light: From Monet to Stieglitz” is on view through Aug. 26 at Carnegie Museum of Art, 4400 Forbes Ave.,
The exhibit presents a picture of what Impressionism means in art, displaying paintings, drawings, prints and pastels by major artists alongside works by many pictorialist photographers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Championed by Alfred Stieglitz, pictorialists emphasized photography as an act of “creating,” rather than recording an image, and were among the first to insist that photography join the ranks of the fine arts.
The exhibit focuses on works from Carnegie Museum of Art's collection, supplemented by loans from the Museum of Modern Art in New York, Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Frick, and private collectors.
The paintings and works on paper represented include Mary Cassatt, Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Paul Gauguin, Childe Hassam, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Paul Signac, Alfred Sisley, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Georges-Pierre Seurat and Claude Monet.
Photographers represented include Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, Gertrude Käsebier, Clarence White, and others who called themselves pictorialists.Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays and noon to 5 p.m. Sundays with extended hours until 8 p.m. Thursdays.Admission is $17.95 for adults, $14.95 for senior citizens, $11.95 for students with ID and children ages 3 to 18, and free for children younger than 3.Admission is free after 3:30 p.m. today in celebration of Art Museum Day.For information, call 412-622-3131.
