For those Memphians in West Texas for the Conference USA basketball tournament who might want a side of culture ...
Selections from the permanent collection of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis form the backbone of a survey of Impressionist art marking the 50th anniversary of the El Paso Museum of Art. The Texas museum had put out a call to museums worldwide for a traveling exhibit that could help mark the milestone, the El Paso Times reported this week:
Selections from the permanent collection of the Dixon Gallery and Gardens in Memphis form the backbone of a survey of Impressionist art marking the 50th anniversary of the El Paso Museum of Art. The Texas museum had put out a call to museums worldwide for a traveling exhibit that could help mark the milestone, the El Paso Times reported this week:
Memphis' Dixon Gallery and Gardens answered, offering 30 works by 24 artists that cover French Impressionism from its first stirrings to its last breath. "Monet to Matisse: French Impressionist Works from the Dixon Gallery and Gardens," which opens today in the Contemporary Gallery, features works by the show's namesakes, Claude Monet and Henri Matisse, and fellow Impressionist titans including Pierre-August Renoir, Paul Gauguin, Georges Seurat and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec.
... "You really get a very good understanding of what happened, primarily in France," (museum art director Michael A.) Tomor said of the exhibit, which was drawn in part from the collection of the late Hugo and Margaret Dixon, Memphis community leaders and philanthropists who bequeathed their collection to the art museum that bears their name. The Dixons' collection has been augmented since the Tennessee museum was established in 1976.
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