Passport to Paris

Passport to Paris: 19th-Century French Prints from the Georgia Museum of Art, one of our most popular traveling exhibitions, will open at the Oklahoma City Museum of Art tomorrow, April 30, and run through June 7 of this year.

Featuring 46 works from the Georgia Museum of Art's collection, Passport to Paris highlights a variety of printmaking techniques used by well-known artists of the 19th century. Particularly in France, these artists experimented with etching, lithography and woodcut and adopted a range of themes and styles in portraying modern life. After the French Revolution, artists began to depict a greater variety of subjects, such as landscapes, portraits and satires of everyday life. Artists included in the exhibition are Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Eugene Delacroix (pictured above), Odilon Redon, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Gauguin, Honoré Daumier, Jean-Louis-André-Théodore Géricault and Edouard Manet.

We know it's far afield, but this exhibition is an exciting extension of the range of GMOA on the Move, and if you happen to be in the area, please stop by. Passport to Paris will move from the Oklahoma City Museum of Art to the Pensacola Museum of Art, in Pensacola, Fla., from July 12 to September 12, 2009.

Update: The Oklahoman's website has a review up.

And another article, from OKGazette.com.

Art Daily has covered the exhibition now.