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The exhibition, which the
Museum co-organized with the
Chrysler Museum of Art, explores a
pivotal moment when artists were
increasingly visiting Spain to study the
masterworks in the Prado Museum
and engage with the country's people
and customs. European tours to the
art capitals of London and Paris now
included Madrid and other stops along
the Iberian Peninsula.
The more than 100 paintings,
photographs, and prints in
the exhibition are presented
chronologically and organized to
emphasize migration and travel in
19th-century Spain; the country's
architecture, gardens, and landscapes;
and the fascination with Spain's
artistic masterpieces and its Islamic
history. The artists and movements
M I LWA U K E E A R T M U S E U M
TOP LEFT: Mary Cassatt, Spanish Girl Leaning on a Window Sill,
ca. 1872. Oil on canvas. 24
3
⁄
8
x 19 in. Manuel Piñanes
García-Olías, Madrid;
TOP: Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida, Hall of the
Ambassadors, Alhambra, Granada, 1909. Oil on canvas. 41 x 32 in.
The J. Paul Getty Museum; TOP RIGHT: Édouard Manet, The
Little Cavaliers, ca. 1860. Oil on canvas. 18 x 29
3
⁄
4
in. Chrysler
Museum of Art, Gift of Walter P. Chrysler, Jr.;
RIGHT: Mary Bradish
Titcomb The Alhambra, ca. 1906. Oil on canvas. 22
1
⁄
4
x 18
1
⁄
4
in.
Chrysler Museum of Art, Museum purchase with funds given
in memory of Joan Foy French by her daughters Wendy and
Christina;
TOP RIGHT: Robert Henri , El Matador, 1906. Oil on
canvas. 78 x 38 in. Purchase, the Mr. and Mrs. Donald B. Abert
and Barbara Abert Tooman Fund with funds in memory of Betty
Croasdaile and John E. Julien
TRAVEL
TO SPAIN
This Summer at the
Milwaukee Art Museum
THE MUSEUM FURTHER EXPANDS SPACES
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC STARTING JUNE 11
ourney through Spain this summer with a
visit to Americans in Spain: Painting and
Travel, 1820–1920. Opening on June 11, this
major exhibition is the first to focus on the
influence of Spanish art and culture on American
painting, and highlights prominent American artists
such as Mary Cassatt, Robert Henri, and John
Singer Sargent.
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FOCUS ON ART
