Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection

Posted: 25.01.10

Following Amgueddfa Cymru’s involvement at the Smithsonian Festival in 2009 is the tour of the Impressionist collection around the USA. The exhibition Turner to Cézanne: Masterpieces from the Davies Collection travels to five different venues over a period of eighteen months. In March 2009 it opened at the Columbia Museum of Art before moving on to Oklahoma City Museum of Art, the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NewYork, the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Washington, DC and Albuquerque Museum in New Mexico.

Opening with an introductory group of works by JMWTurner, the exhibition provides a fascinating and deeply personal vision of French painting from the Realists to the Post-Impressionists and finishes with a small section on avant-garde British art immediately prior to the First World War.

The works are from the two defining bequests of the Welsh sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. They were avid collectors of art and assembled a collection ranging from the Old Masters to contemporary British artists. The exhibition features 58 oil paintings and watercolours, some of which have never been seen in the USA before.

Amgueddfa Cymru was one of the major partners in the delivery of the Wales presence at the Smithsonian Folk Life Festival in Washington, DC in 2009. A dynamic Wales was showcased in the heart of the American capital, raising the country’s profile in the USA.

Amgueddfa Cymru will work with the Welsh Assembly Government to build on the links made in order to encourage greater inward investment and tourism to Wales in the future.

For further information, please visit:
w: http://www.museumwales.ac.uk
w: http://www.corcoran.org
w: http://www.wai.org.uk/news293