This summer, the Portland Museum of Art is presenting the exhibition The Draw of the Normandy Coast, 1860-1960, on view through September 3, 2012. This exhibition will focus on the impressive Normandy coast which proved to be an artistic crucible for European and American artists during the course of the 19th and 20th centuries. Geographically convenient to Paris, accessible by train, with dramatic cliffs and rock formations, and picturesque and active ports, Normandy was an attractive haven. Realists, Impressionists, Neo-Impressionists, Fauves, Cubists, and Surrealists all gravitated to the area, including Claude Monet, Henri Matisse, Camille Pissarro, and James Abbott McNeill Whistler. Featuring more than 40 works, mostly paintings and works on paper, The Draw of the Normandy Coast, 1860-1960 will chart the coast’s significance and showcase the ways in which the landscape was rendered by a spectrum of artists.

The Draw of the Normandy Coast, 1860-1960 was inspired by the masterful painting by Claude Monet, La Manneporte Vue en Aval (The Manneporte Seen from Below) (ca. 1884). This powerful landscape is part of the Isabelle and Scott Black Collection and is currently on long-term loan to the Portland Museum of Art. The Manneporte, the dramatic arch at Étretat, was the focus of one of Monet’s most significant painting campaigns in Normandy. Monet’s painting is one of several works from the Isabelle and Scott Black Collection that will be showcased in the exhibition. The exhibition will also include a carefully selected group of masterworks by European and American artists from the Museum’s permanent holdings, including Samuel Colman’s Cliffs at Étretat (ca. 1873), a work on paper acquired by the Museum in 2009 with the support of the Friends of the Collection.

Claude Monet (France, 1840-1926), La Manneporte Vue en Aval (The Manneporte Seen from Below) , circa 1884. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Isabelle and Scott Black Collection. Photo by meyersphoto.com

James Abbott McNeill Whistler,  1834 - 1903, Gray and Gold – Belle Island, undated
watercolor and paper on board. Portland Museum of Art, Maine. Anonymous Gift. Photo by Meyersphoto.com.

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