Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism

One ticket, two exhibitions! If you buy a ticket for Farm to Table from June 13–August 24, 2025, you can use that same ticket to see Cycle Thru! The Art of the Bike! See the exhibition for free on Thursday nights from 5–8 p.m. and during Art After Dark on Friday, June 27, Friday, July 25, and Friday, August 29. Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism explores the intersections of art, gastronomy, and national identity in fin-de-siècle France. The exhibition showcases over sixty paintings and sculptures, including the work of Claude Monet, Eva Gonzalès, Victor Gilbert, Paul Gauguin, Jules Dalou, and Vincent van Gogh, artists who examined the nation’s unique relationship with food. The bounty of France’s agriculture and the skill of its chefs had long helped to define its strength and position on the international stage. This self-image as the world’s culinary capital became more important in the late nineteenth century as the country grappled with war, political instability, imperialism, and industrialization. In this climate, France’s culinary traditions signaled notions of its refinement, fortitude, and ingenuity while they also exposed fractures that destabilized national identity. From cultivation to consumption, food was central to notions of glory but also to those of collective pain. Farm to Table puts this history on view through the eyes and hands of the period’s greatest artists, who avidly brought subjects from agricultural fields to Parisian dining rooms into their painting and sculpture, documenting and reinforcing monumental cultural shifts at the heart of European modernity.

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