WHERE: Portland Museum of Art.
WHEN: On view June 14 through September 3, 2012.
TITLE: The Draw of the Normandy Coast (1860–1960)
BRIEF ABOUT: Focusing on the impressive Normandy coast, which is geographically convenient to Paris, accessible by train, with dramatic cliffs and rock formations, and picturesque and active ports, Normandy proved to be an artistic haven for European and American artists during the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Realists, Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, Fauves, Cubists, and Surrealists all gravitated to the area, including Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Pablo Picasso. The exhibit will chart the coast’s significance and showcase the ways in which the landscape was rendered by a spectrum of artists.
MORE DETAILS: Call 207.775.6148 or www.portlandmuseum.org.