CHICAGO'S LOVE AFFAIR WITH
FRENCH IMPRESSIONISM

by Suzanne L. Epstein, Ph.D.

Chicago's Love Affair With French Impressionism is the title of a color-slide illustrated lecture on Chicago's enthusiastic love affair with French Impressionist painting. This love affair began in the 1890s and has continued up to the present day.

Long before that revolutionary style was accepted in France, several enlightened Chicagoans had recognized its merits and were eagerly purchasing French Impressionist paintings for their personal collections. As a result of their generosity, many of these paintings are now in the Art Institute of Chicago. - which consequently owns one of the World's greatest collections of French Impressionist painting.

In the lecture, many of the paintings in that splendid collection will be discussed as will the impressive contributions made to that collection by three remarkable Chicagoans - Mrs. Potter Palmer, Mr. Martin Ryerson and Mrs. Lewis L. Coburn.

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