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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) ,
Similarly short, distinct brushstrokes coalesce into the trees and shallow, walled pool that fill this landscape. A thin-trunked tree with light-dappled yellow-green foliage fills much of the left side of the canvas. Behind the tree, a low sandy colored wall contains a shallow, rectangular pool of water. Additional trees with darker green leaves line the right edge of the pool, extending to the upper edge of the canvas.
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) ,
A landscape of recently cleared fields and grass covered hills beneath a sunny blue sky filled with white clouds fills this horizontally oriented painting. In the bottom left foreground, a woman holding a basket in her right hand watches as a man thrusts a shovel into the ground. A horse-drawn wagon approaches in the distance, and a child sits in the field toward the right edge of the painting. The entire scene is rendered in individual dots of paint in deep blue, violet, green, orange, and other shades.
Camille Pissarro
Paysans dans les champs, Éragny (Peasants in the Fields, Éragny) ,
A woman wearing a low-cut pink evening dress and elbow-length gloves sits at the center of this horizontally oriented painting. What appears to be a multicolored furred or feathered garment rests on the back of her red chair. Her face, oriented left, is largely obscured by shadow. She clutches a folded fan in her right hand and adjusts the top of her left hand. The entire scene is loosely painted in a palette dominated by dark greens and yellows.
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 ,
Sunlight streams into a living room from open floor to ceiling windows on the left-hand side of this painting. A man sits with his back to the window, facing a child who stands slightly to the right of the image’s center on the room’s red-and-white striped carpet. A table with a decorative urn, a patterned curtain behind the child, and the rest of the room’s furnishings are also largely in shades of white and red with blue accents. The entire scene is painted in rough, loose brushstrokes.
Edouard Vuillard
Le peintre Ker-Xavier Roussel et sa fille (The Painter Ker-Xavier Roussel and His Daughter) ,

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