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| | Taft Museum of Art ::Museum News, |
 | | The exhibition, which runs from December 16, 2005 to March 12, 2006 examines American art at the end of the nineteenth century when many American artists retreated from the realities of the early modern era-with its burgeoning industry and crowded cities-and instead envisioned an American Eden. |
 | | Rather than drawing upon Impressionism, they sought artistic models in Barbizon painting, an earlier form of French art in which brushstroke and color are more subdued, and rustic figures inhabit an idealized countryside (Barbizon landscape paintings can be viewed in the Taft Museum of Art's own collection). |
 | | Paintings from the Akron Art Museum, an exhibition organized by the Trust for Museum Exhibitions, Washington, D.C. This exhibition is funded through the Institute of Museum and Library Services, by and Act of Congress, in accordance with the FY 2004 Consolidated Appropriations Bill. |
| www.taftmuseum.org /news/AmericanImpressions.htm (656 words) |
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