Brooklyn Museum of Art
200 Eastern Pkwy
718.638.5000
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Gustave Caillebotte, Oarsman in a Top Hat, 1877-78, Private collection, Courtesy: Brooklyn Museum.
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Mar 27, 2009 – July 5, 2009
Wednesdays–Fridays (10am–5pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (11am–6pm)
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$8 suggested donation
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Thirty-odd years after reintroducing Gustave Caillebotte to American audiences, the Brooklyn Museum offers another marvelous paean to a figure whose posthumous fame as both an esteemed painter and patron (he supported everyone from Manet to Monet) confirms e.e. cummings' lyric: "death is no parenthesis." Although Caillebotte's canted views of Paris vaulted him to recognition, this rare exhibition pays tribute to his fixation with water and its picturesque, many-hued flux. The paintings move thematically from matte to impasto, from realistically clear takes on the City of Lights to impressionistically blurred renditions of bucolic outposts like Yerres and the Normandy coast. Besides the vibrant canvases, Caillebotte's drawings, photographs, and self-designed sailboat models reflect his elemental fascination.
