Past Exhibitions
A Century of Irish Art: Selections from The Brian P. Burns Collection
Irish painters worked with the Impressionists in northern France, showed regularly at the Royal Academy in London, and captured the natural beauty of their own country through the 19th century and on through the 1930s. This exhibition, organized by Phoenix Art Museum, presents approximately 40 paintings from the collection of Brian P. Burns, one of the finest and most extensive collections of its kind in the United States. It will explore the relationship between the art in the Burns collection and the wider discourse of European art from the 1820s through World War II. Special attention will be paid to three broad themes: genre painting, landscapes and marine scenes, and the human and equine figures. It is complemented by a selection of the rare book holdings at the Burns Library at Boston College.
Portrait of Miss Harmsworth in a Landscape, Orpen