Masterpieces from the Met in New York on view at the Amon Carter Museum in Fort Worth

by PegNews wire

Met art at the Amon Carter Museum

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Thomas Eakins (1844-1916), The Artist's Wife and His Setter Dog. ca. 1884-89. Oil on canvas, Fletcher Fund, 1923 (23.139). The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.

For a limited time, visitors to the Amon Carter Museum can see two American masterpieces from the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, The Artist’s Wife and His Setter Dog (1884–89) by Thomas Eakins, and Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly (1880) by Mary Cassatt. The paintings are on view at the Amon Carter Museum through January 25, 2010.

“Both are intimate portraits of the artists’ loved ones, although the artists approached their subjects quite differently,” says Rebecca Lawton, curator of paintings and sculpture at the Amon Carter Museum. “Eakins depicts his wife and setter Harry with an uncompromising realism, while Cassatt portrays her ailing sister Lydia with the delicacy and directness of the Impressionists’ brushstroke.”

While these two paintings are in Fort Worth, the Carter has in return loaned two of its own masterpieces to the Met, Swimming (1895) by Thomas Eakins, and Idle Hours (ca. 1894) by William Merritt Chase. Both paintings are in the Met’s exhibition American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765–1915.

Source: Amon Carter Museum