A Mirroring of Riches: Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent, and Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida in America will be on view at the National Academy Museum from February 17 to May 2, 2010, and then travel to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from June 4 to September 19, 2010. This exhibition (includin... Read more
A Mirroring of Riches: Anders Zorn, John Singer Sargent, and Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida in America will be on view at the National Academy Museum from February 17 to May 2, 2010, and then travel to the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco from June 4 to September 19, 2010. This exhibition (including approximately 45-50 paintings) will primarily focuses attention on portraits of Americans by Zorn and Sargent, and reveal the extraordinary works these European-based artists created during the course of their many visits to the United States from approximately 1890-1915. This will be complemented with a smaller group of paintings by Sorolla, drawn primarily from the collection of The Hispanic Society of America. The Spanish artist visited America in 1909 and 1911, and during the early years of the 20th became enormously popular in the United States as a painter of beach scenes. Like Zorn and Sargent, he was also avidly sought after as a portraitist by patrons of great wealth, power, and influence. A Mirroring of Riches will also include a group of closely related outdoor pictures by Zorn, Sargent and Sorolla. Major loans from museums across the United States will be featured in the exhibition, including The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, the National Portrait Gallery, the Minneapolis Institutes of Arts, the Clark Art Institute, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and The Hispanic Society of America.
