The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) began collecting Impressionist art in 1929, when the real-estate developer and sometime Chicago Times editor William Preston Harrison donated 10 paintings by F. Childe Hassam, one of the United States’ foremost Impressionists, to the institution. Over the years – particularly once LACMA got out from under the umbrella of the Los Angeles Museum of History, Science and Art, opening its own building in 1965 – the museum’s holdings of Impressionist art grew increasingly international and illustrious, including, among more than 150 other works, Pissarro’s La Place du Théâtre Français (1898) and one of Monet’s Water Lilies from 1897–98. This exhibition, organised by the order in which the paintings joined the collection, tells the story of LACMA’s century-old relationship with Impressionism and includes not only paintings but also early photographs (21 December–3 January 2027). Alfred Stieglitz’s snapshot A Wet Day on the Boulevards, Paris (1894), for example, looks remarkably like an urban scene by Caillebotte.
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