Lakeland’s AGB Museum hosts one-of-a-kind Dutch Impressionist exhibition
December 7, 2024 at 5:00 AM EST
More than 100 paintings from The Hague School will be on display through Feb. 23.
More than 100 Dutch Impressionist paintings are currently on exhibit at the Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College in Lakeland in a one-of-a-kind display.
“It isn’t going anywhere else and all the works, 100 pieces, in the show, are exclusive to our museum, and they’re in the United States for the very first time,” said Alex Rich, AGB Museum executive director and chief curator.
Swaths of color: Impressionism – the painting style that revolutionized art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – often brings to mind French painters such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir or Americans like Mary Cassatt.
But artists from the so-called Hague School including Willem Maris and Isaac Israels also made their marks on the art world.
Like their French and American counterparts, the Dutch Impressionists used swaths of colors to mimic the light, shadows and movement of a scene at a given moment.
Collaboration: The exhibit is part of a collaboration with the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation of The Hague, and the works are on loan from the foundation and various private collections.
“These are usually in people’s homes, their living rooms, their hallways, their dining rooms, and they’re all here exclusively for our community,” Rich said.
Willem Jan Hoogsteder, the foundation’s director, explained in a recent talk at the museum that Impressionism wasn’t exclusive to France, although the artists did collaborate because The Hague was a quick train ride away.
This is the AGB’s third collaboration with the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation. The first was 2017’s “Rembrandt’s Academy,” followed by 2020’s “Music & Dance in Painting of the Dutch Golden Age”.
Many of the paintings incorporate the Dutch countryside, including windmills and cows. There are also several portraits and still lifes.
If you go
What: “Dutch Impressionism, The Hague School, 1860 to 1930” runs until February 23, 2025.
Where: The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College, 800 E. Palmetto St.; Dorothy Jenkins Gallery and Gallery II on the first floor
When: Through Feb 23, 2025
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5; Sunday 1-5
Admission: Free
“It isn’t going anywhere else and all the works, 100 pieces, in the show, are exclusive to our museum, and they’re in the United States for the very first time,” said Alex Rich, AGB Museum executive director and chief curator.
Swaths of color: Impressionism – the painting style that revolutionized art in the late 19th and early 20th centuries – often brings to mind French painters such as Claude Monet and Pierre-Auguste Renoir or Americans like Mary Cassatt.
But artists from the so-called Hague School including Willem Maris and Isaac Israels also made their marks on the art world.
Like their French and American counterparts, the Dutch Impressionists used swaths of colors to mimic the light, shadows and movement of a scene at a given moment.
Collaboration: The exhibit is part of a collaboration with the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation of The Hague, and the works are on loan from the foundation and various private collections.
“These are usually in people’s homes, their living rooms, their hallways, their dining rooms, and they’re all here exclusively for our community,” Rich said.
Willem Jan Hoogsteder, the foundation’s director, explained in a recent talk at the museum that Impressionism wasn’t exclusive to France, although the artists did collaborate because The Hague was a quick train ride away.
This is the AGB’s third collaboration with the Hoogsteder Museum Foundation. The first was 2017’s “Rembrandt’s Academy,” followed by 2020’s “Music & Dance in Painting of the Dutch Golden Age”.
Many of the paintings incorporate the Dutch countryside, including windmills and cows. There are also several portraits and still lifes.
If you go
What: “Dutch Impressionism, The Hague School, 1860 to 1930” runs until February 23, 2025.
Where: The Ashley Gibson Barnett Museum of Art at Florida Southern College, 800 E. Palmetto St.; Dorothy Jenkins Gallery and Gallery II on the first floor
When: Through Feb 23, 2025
Hours: Tuesday-Saturday 10-5; Sunday 1-5
Admission: Free