Paul Allen Collection Landscape Survey Opens at Portland Art Museum with 500 Years of Masterworks
From October 10, 2015, to January 10, 2016, the Portland Art Museum will showcase 'Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection' at 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, Oregon. This exhibition comprises 39 artworks spanning five centuries, featuring both French Impressionist and modernist pieces. Notable highlights include five paintings by Claude Monet, Paul Signac's 1891 work 'Morning Calm, Concarneau, Opus 219 (Larghetto),' Gustav Klimt's 1903 'Birch Forest,' and Henri Le Sidaner's 1907 'Serenade at Venice.' Modernist contributions come from artists like Georgia O'Keeffe and David Hockney. Following its Portland showing, the exhibition will tour The Phillips Collection, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, and wrap up at the Seattle Art Museum in 2017.
Key facts
- Exhibition runs October 10, 2015 to January 10, 2016
- Features 39 works from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection
- Many works shown publicly for the first time
- Includes five paintings by Claude Monet
- Show spans 500 years of landscape art
- Will travel to four additional museums through 2017
- Located at Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR
- Includes works by Cézanne, Klimt, Hockney, and Signac
Entities
Artists
- Claude Monet
- Paul Signac
- Gustav Klimt
- Henri Le Sidaner
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Ed Ruscha
- Gerhard Richter
- David Hockney
- René Magritte
- Max Ernst
- Jan Brueghel the Younger
- J.M.W. Turner
- Canaletto
- Édouard Manet
- Thomas Moran
- Paul Cézanne
- Edgar Degas
- Frantz Jourdain
- Joan Kirsch
Institutions
- Portland Art Museum
- Paul G. Allen Family Collection
- The Phillips Collection
- Minneapolis Institute of Arts
- New Orleans Museum of Art
- Seattle Art Museum
- Metropolitan Museum of Art
Locations
- Portland
- United States
- Oregon
- Washington, D.C.
- Minneapolis
- New Orleans
- Seattle
- Chicago
- Venice
- Italy
- Attersee
- Austria
- Brittany
- France