‘AMERICAN IMPRESSIONISM’ WILL OPEN JUNE 16 AT PHILLIPS COLLECTION

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WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Phillips Collection will present the exhibition, “American Impressionism: Paintings from The Phillips Collection,” on view June 16–September 16.

In America, the radical new style of Impressionism blended European approaches to painting with American sensibilities and preferences. Celebrated American artists including Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Henry Twachtman, and J. Alden Weir transformed the heroic American landscape into a modern idiom.

The Phillips celebrates 85 years of presenting art with more than 65 treasured works from the golden age of American Impressionism, circa 1880–1920, assembled together for the first time in more than a generation.

This is the first venue on a six-city national tour for the exhibition.

The Phillips Collection is at 1600 21st Street NW. For information, 202-387-2151 or www.phillipscollection.org.