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Article: How modern art grew in 19th-century Brittany Gauguin and School of Pont-Aven in bold, beautiful MFA show
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- June 25, 1996
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GAUGUIN AND THE SCHOOL OF PONT-AVEN
At: the Museum of Fine Arts, through Sept. 15
Pont-Aven was the Provincetown of its time, a Breton river port
that was an inexpensive mecca for artists beginning in the 1880s.
The most famous of them was Paul Gauguin, but the group also included
such well-known painters as Emile Bernard and Maurice Denis, and
others whose stars have never soared: Only the specialist in the
subject will have heard of Wladyslaw Slewinski, Gad Frederick Clement
or Robert Bevan.
All the above are among the 21 artists in "Gauguin and the School
of Pont-Aven," organized by the San Diego Museum of Art and opening
tomorrow at the Museum of Fine Arts, the final stop on a national ...