Amazing Art - Gibbes Museum: Impression, Monet: Loans from the Gregg Turk Foundation (Charleston)

Route pres de Giverny, by Claude Monet (1885). Oil on canvas. Loan Courtesy of Gregg Turk Foundation.

 

Now entering its final weeks, Impression, Monet: Loans from the Gregg Turk Foundation (on view through Oct. 25) offers visitors to the Gibbes Museum of Art the opportunity to experience three extraordinary landscapes by Claude Monet (1840–1926), the pioneering French artist celebrated as a founder of the Impressionist movement.

Monet’s revolutionary approach to light, color and atmosphere helped transform the course of modern art. The landscapes on view date from 1871, 1872 and 1885. This is the first time Monet paintings have been exhibited in Charleston by the Gibbes. All three paintings are privately held by the Gregg Turk Foundation, on special loan to the Gibbes for this exclusive showing, with generous support from Dr. Joseph and Meghan Scalea and Kiawah Partners. Presented at the Gibbes in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Monet's death in 1926, Impression, Monet brings together three privately held landscapes painted at pivotal points in Monet's career — Moulins en Hollande (1871), Pommiers en Fleurs (1872) and Route près de Giverny (1885) —spanning more than a decade of the artist's development. The Gibbes Museum of Art, a beacon in the American South for arts and culture since 1858 when the Museum’s art collection was founded as the Carolina Art Association, is heralded as one of the earliest and most longstanding arts institutions in the United States. The Museum’s collection spans 350 years, and features some of the country’s most celebrated artists ‒ including contemporary, modern, and historical works. With world-class rotating exhibitions and a dynamic visiting artist residency program, the Gibbes is a Southern museum with a global perspective. The Museum’s mission is to enhance lives through art by engaging people of every background and experience with art and artists of enduring quality, providing opportunities to learn and discover, to enjoy and be inspired by the creative process.