Clark Institute, Williamstown (1)

On our trip out to western MA, we took two days on our own before joining Barbara and Bill to witness Sam's Bar Mitzvah.  The Clark Institute had an exhibition entitled "Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900" and it was wonderful.  Here is the first of several blogs from the museums, including MoCA and Worchester A.M.

The building and environment of the Clark Institute are magnificent.

Upon entering the Clark, the first exhibition you see is iron art, exceptional pieces of 

decorative art, rescued from Paris during Haussmann's renewal during the 19th. century. 

This is a door to a household safe.  Notice the flintlock pistol incorporated into it

which would explode to warn the owners of the door being tampered with. 

Anna Ancher

Judgement of a Day's Work

  1881

The beginning of the main exhibition.  It is a great tribute to the artistry  of many woman artists who were banned

from exhibiting in the upper levels of art exhibitions of the time, but who were able to paint, and exhibit, on their own. 

Louise Breslau

The Friends 

 1884

Louise Breslau

Tea at Five o'clock   1883

Mary Cassatt

Child Picking a Fruit

1893

Marie Bracquemond

Three Women with Parasols

(The Three Graces)

c.1880

Marie Bracquemond

On the Terraced at Sevres

1880

Marie Bracquemond

The Woman in White

1880

It say a lot about the final recognition of this treat artist that this 

is now hanging in the Musee d'Orsay.  What a splendid work!  And that dress!

Cecilia Beaux

Sita and Sarita

(Woman with a Cat)

1893-4

Sita is the cat.

Elin Danielsom-Gambogi

Girl and Kittens in a Summer Landscape

1892

There was a large Scandinavian representation in the exhibition

Marianne Stokes

Death and the Maiden

1908