Inspiring Impressionism at SAM

We greatly enjoyed Seattle Art Museum's exhibit Inspiring Impressionism which included almost 100 paintings and other works assembled from more than 70 museums and private collections, some of which have never traveled to the United States. We were given a fresh viewpoint on one of art history’s most important movements and a chance to explore the influence of Old Masters on Impressionist painters through the pairing of masterpieces by the Impressionists such as Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Pierre Auguste Renoir and Edgar Degas with those by artists Frans Hals, Francisco Goya and Jean-Honoré Fragonard, among others.

Inspiring Impressionism: The Impressionists and the Art of the Past
June 19–September 21, 2008