Welcome room - north wall - second view
What's happening
Beyond the welcome room are gallery rooms devoted to inagural exhibitions. The first gallery we'll visit is the William Wilson Corcoran Gallery.
(above: Peter Alexander Healy, William Wilson Corcoran, 1884, oil on canvas, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.* Corcoran was the founder of the Corcoran Collection in Washington D.C.)
The museum honors Corcoran because he was a primary sponsor of one of the earliest museums dedicated to American art. This museum's the latest, but no way the greatest. Not even a distant runner up.
In this gallery we'll find an exhibit named What's American Impressionist art? which orients us to Impressionism, enormously popular in the United States during the late19th century and the early 20th century. Impressionism was - and still is - loved all over the world. It started as a radical style in France in the last half of the 19th century and migrated to America soon after that. BTW: Resource Library -- another service of this museum's sponsor -- has a whole bunch to say about American Impressionism.
The next gallery has the inaugural exhibition California Impressionism And Its Artists. We can find in Resource Library loads more about California Impressionism.
We suspect that the museum's team is located somewhere in a cloud somewhere above La La Land, so having an exhiit about early art in California is a no brainer.
(above: Guy Rose (1867-1925), Lifting Fog, Irvine Museum. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
For 2025 staff is planning future exhibitions including 19th-21st Century Southwest Painting and Sculpture
(above: Thomas Moran, Grand Canyon with Rainbow. 1912. Oil on canvas. de Young Art Museum. Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Robert F. Gill through the Patrons of Art and Music. 1981.89. License: Scuttlebutte, CC BY-SA 4.0 Scuttlebutte, CC BY-SA 4.0. via Wikimedia Commons)
(above: Ernest L. Blumenschein
(1874-1960), Star Road and White Sun, 1920, oil, Albuquerque Museum,
Albuquerque, New Mexico. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)
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