Monday, April 13, 2009

Easter in Philadelphia

I went to Philadelphia with my parents for Easter weekend to visit family friends who live there. On Saturday, we went to the Philadelphia Museum of Art to see the Cézanne and Beyond exhibit. It featured many of Cézanne's major works, and works by other artists who were directly influenced by him, including Pablo Picasso, Henri Matisse, and Jasper Johns. Afterward we visited the American wing and the European wing to see the Impressionist works. Here are some of my favorite works that we saw:


A Woman and a Girl Driving, Mary Cassatt, 1881


The Large Bathers, Renoir, 1884-87

The Grands Boulevards, Renoir, 1875


Little Dancer, Aged Fourteen, Degas, 1878-81


There were also flowers and trees in bloom on the street where our friends live...although it was chilly and a bit windy on Easter Sunday, the sun was out and the flowers were beautiful!



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