From Paris to Maine: Impressionism in Art and Music
Join art historians Laura D. Corey and Kirsten Jensen, Yonkers Philharmonic conductor Ariel Rudiakov, and a sextet of musicians for a dynamic program exploring Childe Hassam and American Impressionism, centered on his 1902 painting Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals, on loan from the Toledo Museum of Art. Through conversation, projected images, and live chamber music—including works by Claude Debussy and Marcel Grandjany—the program examines the transatlantic exchanges that shaped Impressionism in both visual art and music. Discover how artists and composers, traveling more freely between Europe and America at the turn of the century, developed parallel “palettes” of light, color, and atmosphere.
Ariel Rudiakov is Music Director of the Yonkers Philharmonic and co-founder of Taconic Music. A violist and educator, he has held leadership roles with orchestras across the Northeast and has served on the faculties of the University of Indianapolis and Yale University.
Kirsten Jensen is an independent scholar and specialist in American Impressionism. She is the former Gerry & Marguerite Lenfest Chief Curator of the Michener Art Museum and previously served as Director of the Catalogue Raisonné for American Impressionist John F. Folinsbee, Assistant Curator at the Hudson River Museum, and Leon Levy Fellow at the Frick Center for the Art of Collecting. She holds a PhD in Art History from the Graduate Center, CUNY, and has published and organized exhibitions on American art since 1850.
Laura D. Corey is Associate Research Curator & Project Manager in the Director’s Office at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. She received her BA from Duke University and her PhD from the Institute of Fine Arts, NYU, where she specialized in nineteenth-century French art and the history of collecting. At The Met, she has contributed to major exhibitions including Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity (2013), Seurat’s Circus Sideshow (2017), and Making The Met, 1870–2020 (2020). She co-leads the Alexis Gregory Curatorial Practice Program.
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Image: Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935). Summer Sea, Isles of Shoals, 1902. Oil on canvas. Toledo Museum of Art. Gift of Florence Scott Libbey (PL.2023.4.2).
Support provided by Art Bridges.
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