An international episode

by Laura L. Meixner

"The...exhibition addresses (the) issue of dual commitment, to French avant garde technique and American traditional imagery, as it manifested itself among certain American artists who worked with Jean-Francois Millet (1814-1875) and Claude Monet (1840-1926) at Barbizon and Giverny." (from the catalog's introduction) Seventy works (62 oil on canvas, 8 drawings) by the following artists were included in the exhibition: Millet; William Morris Hunt (American, 1824-1879); Wyatt Eaton (Canadian, 1849-1896); Monet; John Leslie Breck (American, 1860-1899); Theodore Wendel (American, 1859-1932; Willard Leroy Metcalf (American, 1853-1925); Theodore Robinson (American, 1852-1896); Lilla Cabot Perry (American, 1848-1933); Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939); Theodore E. Butler (American, 1876-1894). Catalog cover is Theodore Robinson's "Gathering Plums" (1891, 22 x 18 Oil on canvas, signed/dated, from the collection of the Georgia Museum of Art). Exhibition and catalog were made possibl