Zorn exhibit coming to Boston

Later this month, a new exhibition will open in Boston, Massachusetts, called: Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America. (Above: Mrs. Walter Rathbone Bacon (née Virginia Purdy), 1897)

The exhibition will include 24 paintings by the Swedish Belle-Epoque master (1860-1920), along with 22 drawings, photographs, letters, and gifts that Anders Zorn gave Isabella Gardner in 1894. (Above: The Omnibus, 1892.)

(Above: "Frieda Schiff, Later Mrs. Felix M. Warburg," 1894.) The show will be organized in five different segments, including “Zorn and Gardner,” “Society Portraits,” “In the City,” “Country Life,” and “Artist’s Studios.” Highlights include "Isabella Stewart Gardner in Venice" (1894), "Night Effect" (1895), and "The Ice Skater" (1898).

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Anders Zorn: A European Artist Seduces America, February 28-May 13, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, Massachusetts. 

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Catalog: ANDERS ZORN: A European Artist Seduces America, by curator Oliver Tostmann