Impressionism Exhibit Opens At Museum

The "Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" exhibit opened today at the Milwaukee Art Museum, and will be open until early January 2012. The exhibit features over a hundred "drawings, watercolors, and pastels by many of the greatest artists in the history of Western European art—Manet, Degas, Renoir, Cézanne, Seurat, Van Gogh, Toulouse-Lautrec," according to the announcement on the Museum's website.

An interesting inclusion in the exhibit is Renoir's Bathers with Crab, primarily due to the nature by which the museum acquired the piece: through a Super Bowl bet.  In a "gentleman's wager" with the Carnegie Museum of Art, the Milwaukee Art Museum won the rights to borrow the Impressionist piece when the Green Bay Packers beat the Pittsburgh Steelers in February.

"Impressionism: Masterworks on Paper" is open starting today through January 8, 2012 at the Milwaukee Art Museum.  For information on admission, visit the museum's website.