"Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America" Exhibition in Boston 2013

If you're a art fiend about 19th Century painting like me, you probably like Zorn and will be delighted to hear that the Isabella Sterwart Gardner Museum in Boston, MA will be hosting an exhibit of his works this Spring. The show features 24 paintings, some of them never before seen on our shores, such as Night Effect and The Ice Skater, and a selection of photographs and letters from the artist. This is the first major retrospective of this artist's works in several decades (as far as I know) and brings together works from New York's Met and Chicago's Art Institute Museum collections.

As always, I encourage everyone to make the trek to Boston to go see this, since it's rare to see so much of his work in the U.S., and photographs of great paintings never do the works justice.

The show runs Feb 28th-May 13th, 2013. Feast your eyes!

Here are some samples from the upcoming show.

The Omnibus, second version, 1892, Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

In Wikström's Studio, 1889, Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920), Zorn Museum, Mora, Photo: Patric Evinger

Frileuse; Shivering Girl, 1894, Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920), Stockholm, Prins Eugen Waldemarsudde, Photo: Per Myrehed

Portrait of Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice, 1894, Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920), Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (née Virginia Purdy), 1897, New York, Metropolitan Museum of Art, © Metropolitan Museum of Art, Image source: Art Resource, NY

Self-Portrait, 1889, Anders Zorn (Swedish, 1860-1920), Florence, Galleria degli Uffizi, Soprintendenza Speciale Per Il Polo Museale Fiorentino