Impressionist And Modern Masters From the Cleveland Museum of Art

Oct 21- Jan 13 | The Cleveland Museum of Art
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Beijing, Tokyo, Seoul, Vancouver — some of The Cleveland Museum of Art’s most famous sculptures, drawings and paintings from the 19th and 20th centuries have done plenty of traveling during the past 16 months, while the museum’s $258 million expansion and renovation project continues.

Now, after logging thousands of miles, Impressionist and Modern Masters from The Cleveland Museum of Art is returning home so Clevelanders can reconnect with the museum. “It’s a chance for people in the city to become reacquainted with their favorite pieces and also see pieces being shown in a new way,” says William Robinson, the museum’s curator of modern European art.

Works by Claude Monet, Vincent Van Gogh, Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso will be included in the 140-piece exhibition, as well as others that were kept safely stored rather than sent on tour. “We are showing, in Cleveland, [works] too fragile and light-sensitive to take on the road,” Robinson says, including pastels by Edgar Degas, Odilon Redon and Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, as well as graphic works by Picasso not usually seen by the public.