December 15, 2010 – February 11, 2011
From December 15, 2010 – February 11, 2011, Akron Art Museum visitors will have the rare privilege of viewing Claude Monet’s Wisteria in the C. Blake McDowell, Jr. Gallery.
On loan from the Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, the painting will hang amongst other Impressionist masterpieces, including two Frederick Frieseke works located on the adjoining wall. Frieseke, one of a small group of American painters so influenced by French Impressionism that he moved to Giverny to be near Monet, will now share a gallery with him in Akron.
Wisteria is one of nine remaining paintings originally intended to serve as part of a decorative frieze for the French government following World War I. Although a pavilion was planned on the grounds of the Hotel Biron (now the Musée Rodin) to house the project, it never came to fruition. Influenced by the imported white and lilac wisteria that grew on the famous Japanese-style bridge in Monet’s garden, all nine canvases likely date from 1919-20.
Visit www.AkronArtMuseum.org for more information or call 330.376.9186.
