Three landscapes by Claude Monet are hanging inside the Gibbes Museum of Art in Charleston right now, and if you want to see them, the clock is ticking: the paintings, on loan from the Gregg Turk Foundation, are only on view through October 25. It marks the first time Monet's work has ever been exhibited at the Gibbes, a milestone for the Charleston museum.
The exhibition, titled “Impression, Monet: Loans from the Gregg Turk Foundation,” brings together three works spanning more than a decade of Monet's career: Moulins en Hollande (1871), Pommiers en Fleurs (1872) and Route près de Giverny (1885), according to Artdaily. All three paintings are privately held by the Gregg Turk Foundation and were sent to the Gibbes on special loan, the outlet reports. As Outtake Online notes, the show is being presented in recognition of the 100th anniversary of Monet's death, which the museum traces to 1926.
Dr. H. Alexander Rich, the Gibbes’ president and CEO, said the museum is thrilled to showcase rarely seen works by the artist, adding that the exhibition presents Monet's brilliance within the galleries for the first time. The show doesn't stop at the French master's own canvases: curators have placed his landscapes in conversation with American painters including William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri, Childe Hassam, William H. Johnson and Edmund Charles Tarbell, per the same Artdaily report.
Monet's Artistic Legacy
The exhibition examines Monet's impact on art more broadly, the article notes.
The Gibbes says the exhibition highlights Monet's impact in France and the United States, according to the Gibbes Museum of Art.
A Sold-Out Tour Built Around the Loaned Works
The museum built a members-only program, Monet & Mimosas, around the exhibition to mark the centennial of Monet's passing, offering a guided tour of the special exhibition featuring the three works on loan from the Gregg Turk Foundation. According to the Gibbes Museum of Art's program listing, mimosas begin at 1 p.m. in the Campbell Rotunda, with the tour itself starting at 1:30 p.m. The event is already sold out.
The Gibbes is hosting Monet's work in Charleston. For the city, hosting his paintings at the museum for the first time is being treated as a genuine milestone — one that closes out on October 25, whether or not visitors managed to snag a mimosa along the way.
