TFAO Museum of American Art - we're becoming supicious

At this point we're becoming supicious that the museum's curator isn't very sharp.

When he was fishing around for a name for this exhibit, he wanted something catchy and sophisticated. The name is, and he isn't. One thing's for sure, the artists featured in this exhibit at some time in their lives painted in The United States. Another is they're all deceased. Same goes for the other inaugural exhibition. They likely painted in other styles besides Impressionism because they became excited about many fashions in painting. Some even painted in multiple styles on the same canvas.

We're getting a bit dizzy here.

Other styles besides impressionist are included in this exhibit. Why? This curator likes the looks of the paintings. People in the know use strange words like Barbizon, Post-impressionist, Tonalist and the like to classify other styles used by the artists Our curator isn't much in the know.

Those of us who want to dig deeper will, and the rest of us are mostly happy as clams about what we see here.

(above: Wayman Elbridge Adams, The Art Jury, 1921, oil on canvas, 82.2 x 54.2 inches, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Gift to the Art Association through popular subscription, 26.189. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons*)

These jurors look like they are in the know, unlike you know who.

Having exposed the curator as the lightweight he is, lets return to our tour

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