Art Centre Basel is pleased to announce the launch of: ‘Towards Impressionism. Landscape Painting from Corot to Monet’.

The catalogue of the exhibition to be shown at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, FL and the Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA will present a choice selection of 19th century French paintings from the Musée des Beaux-Arts, Reims in order to trace the history of French art from the Romantics to the School of Barbizon, the circle of Honfleur, and up to Impressionism.

Editor: Suzanne Greub, Art Centre Basel

Publisher: Hirmer Verlag GmbH, Munich.

Contributing authors:

Michael Clarke (Former Director, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh) and Frances Fowle (Reader in History of Art, University of Edinburg and Senior Curator, Scottish National Gallery, Edinburgh).