|
|
Article: IMPRESSIONS OF DEGAS; Wealthy Americans snapped up the art of French Impressionist Edgar Degas. Their legacy goes on view this week in Minnesota's first Degas retrospective.(ENTERTAINMENT)
- Article from:
- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2001
- Author:
CopyrightCOPYRIGHT 2001 Star Tribune Co. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)
|
Byline: Mary Abbe; Staff Writer
France gave the world Impressionist painting, and Americans bought it. Which is why you travel not to Paris but to Chicago, New York, Boston - and for the next three months, to Minneapolis - if you want to see the best Impressionist art.
No artist but Monet was greeted with more enthusiasm in the United States than Edgar Degas (Day-GAH), the wealthy Parisian who immortalized ballerinas, laundresses, shop girls and racehorses. Thanks in large part to his friendship with the American-born painter Mary Cassatt, who lived in Paris, Degas' art was bought by rich Americans who later donated it to their hometown museums.
...