Sorolla and Cosmopolitan Painting in Europe and America, 1870-1920

Rick Brettell, Margaret McDermott Distinguished Chair and Co-director of the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Museums, The University of Texas at Dallas; Art Critic, The Dallas Morning News The so-called "masters of the loaded brush"-- as the four artists featured in this lecture are often termed -- have been commonly related to their then lesser-known contemporaries, the Impressionists. Brettell will consider the work of both sets of artists and deal with both the commonalities among and contrasts between them, stressing the latter.