"Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection.

"Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection," is onward view through Sept. 18 at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (VMFA). The exhibit showcases works from individual of the largest holdings of 19th- and 20th-century American paintings still in private hands, according to Michael Brand, VMFA director. Thirty-five paintings, watercolors, pastels and cuts will be on display by way of some of the nation's leading Impressionist artists--Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent--as well as leading Realist artists--George Bellows, Winslow Homer and Robert Henri.

undivided of the most important paintings upon view is Martin Johnson Heade's "Two Magnolias and a bourgeon on Teal Velvet," which is from a well-known series of magnolia studies created at the artist.

Mr and Mr McGlothlin of Austin, TX have assembled their collection throughout the past decade. "A sparkling watercolor by way of Maurice Prendergast radiates the zeal with which [the McGlothlins] have exercised their passion for collecting since the mid-1990s," says Brand.

"Their lately acquired Sargent oil portrait of Mm Eugenia Errazuriz, single of the great beauties of the late 19th hundred attests to their own have affection for of the beautiful in American Art. Now to be shared for the first time with visitors to VMFA, the American Impressionists and Realist pictures in the exhibition will invite repeated discovery."

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Capturing Beauty: American Impressionist and Realist Paintings from the McGlothlin Collection

end Sept. 18

Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

Address: 200 North Blvd

Richmond, VA

Phone: 804-204-2704

Web site: www.vmfa.state.va.us

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