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Humble and Human: Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts: An Exhibition in Honor of Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.

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Co-published by the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts
Buffalo, New York; Detroit, Michigan
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Exhibition catalogue
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In honor of the centenary of Mr. Ralph C. Wilson, Jr.’s birth, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts have co-organized Humble and Human: Treasures from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery and the Detroit Institute of Arts. This accompanying catalogue presents more than forty paintings and sculptures, dating from the mid-nineteenth to the early twentieth centuries, along with a lively essay by Richard R. Brettell, one of the world’s foremost scholars of the Impressionist era. From works by Gustave Courbet and Édouard Manet to those by Claude Monet, Berthe Morisot, Vincent van Gogh, and Paul Cézanne, the book and exhibition capture the revolutionary nature of this well-loved period in the history of art through masterpieces from two extraordinary collections.

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This wintery landscape features a path that follows a still gray river as it curves from the bottom right corner of the canvas and recede into the distance under an overcast sky. On the right side of the painting, smokestacks on a distant are reflected in the water. Four small figures summarily rendered in dark tones walk on the path, with one appearing to move toward the viewer. To the left is a patch of trees and grass that peeks out beneath melting snow.
Claude Monet
Chemin de halage à Argenteuil (Towpath at Argenteuil, Winter) ,
Le bassin du Jas de Bouffan (The Pool at Jas de Bouffan)
Paul Cézanne
Le bassin du Jas de Bouffan (The Pool at Jas de Bouffan) ,
Étude de nu pour la danseuse habillée (Study in the Nude for the Dressed Ballet Dancer)
Edgar Degas
Étude de nu pour la danseuse habillée (Study in the Nude for the Dressed Ballet Dancer) ,
Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny)
Camille Pissarro
Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) ,
Portrait de Mlle Rose Caron (Portrait of Rose Caron)
Edgar Degas
Portrait de Mlle Rose Caron (Portrait of Rose Caron) ,
Étude pour "La Grande Jatte" (Study for "La Grande Jatte")
Georges Seurat
Étude pour "La Grande Jatte" (Study for "La Grande Jatte") ,
This horizontally oriented canvas features a loosely painted rural scene of several old stone houses and a dirt road running between them. Tall trees rise above behind the roofs. The grey and somber light that pervades the scene overall streams from a cloudy sky in the top quarter of the canvas. In the painting’s middle ground, a human figure wearing a blue shirt and light-colored trousers raises an axe above his head in order to chop a large branch at his feet.
Alfred Sisley
Rue de village à Marlotte (Village Street in Marlotte) ,
Mlle Fiocre dans le ballet "La Source" (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the ballet "La Source")
Edgar Degas
Mlle Fiocre dans le ballet "La Source" (Mademoiselle Fiocre in the ballet "La Source") ,
Horse with Head Lowered
Edgar Degas
Horse with Head Lowered ,
Les drames de la mer, Bretagne (Dramas of the Seas, Brittany) from the Volpini Suite
Paul Gauguin
Les drames de la mer, Bretagne (Dramas of the Seas, Brittany) from the Volpini Suite ,
Bretonnes à la barrière (Breton Women Beside a Fence) from the Volpini Suite
Paul Gauguin
Bretonnes à la barrière (Breton Women Beside a Fence) from the Volpini Suite ,
Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter)
Edouard Vuillard
Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter) ,

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