FRENCH IMPRESSIONIST
AND
POST IMPRESSIONIST PAINTINGS
from the Collections of
MRS. BERTHA
PALMER THORHE
AND
MR.
GORDOH PALMER
CATALOGUE
WALKER ART MUSEUM
Bowdoin College
May
11
Bninf^wick,
'
June
17,
1962
Maine
Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne and Gordon Palmer are grandchildren
of Mrs. Potter Palmer of Chicago who, in 1889,
Americans
While
to introduce
was one of the
French Impressionst Painting to
the greatest portion of Mrs.
Palmer's collection
country.
this
is
first
in the
Art
many of the pictures in this exhibition were among
by her. To this original group, our lenders have since
Institute of Chicago,
those acquired
added several important examples ranging
din's
La Plage
to Picasso's
Two
Pigeons.
Art Museum of Bowdoin College
It is
and
taste
many
from Bou'
Walker
a privilege for the
to be able to present to a
such a distinguished group of pictures,
their kind to reach
in time
new
audience
of which were the
first
our shores.
M.
S.
S.
of
Lent by Mrs. Bertha Palmer Thorne
Jean'Antoine
Houdon (1714-1828),
Portrait
of a Little
Girl,
bronze
sculpture
Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot (1796' 1875), Trois Jeunes Filles pres d'un
Arbre,
oil
Eugene Boudin (1824-1898), La Plage,
oil
Edouard Manet (1832-1883), Portrait of Berthe Morisot, lithograph
Hilaire
Germaine Edgar Degas (1834-1917), Mile. Wol\ons\a, etching
Degas, Interior with Dancers^ monotype
Henri Fantin-Latour (1836-1904),
Women
Alfred Sisley (1839-1899), Landscape,
Paul Cezanne (1839-1906),
The
Embroidering^ lithograph
oil
Indwell, watercolor
Cezanne, The ^uarrv, watercolor
Cezanne,
Mont
St. Victoire,
watercolor
Claude Monet (1840-1926), Pheasants,
Monet, Haystac\s
oil
at 7S(oon, oil
Berthe Morisot (1841-1893), Girl with
Swan and
Mary
color aquatint drypoint
Cassatt (1845-1927),
Tea Party,
Duc}{, etching
Cassatt,
Women
with Baby, color aquatint drypoint
Cassatt,
Woman
Sealing Envelope, color aquatint drypoint
Jcaii'Fninv^ois RafFaelli
(1850-1924), Lady of Fashion,
Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901), Box
at the
oil
Theatre, color
litho-
graph
Pablo Picasso (1881-
Roses,
),
Georges Braque (1882-
oil
Athena, color lithograph
),
Marie Laurencin (1885-1956), La
Petite
F-ille
en Rose,
oil
Laurencin, Girl, color etching
Laurencin, Flowers, color lithograph
Lent by Mr. Gordon Palmer
Constantin
Guys (1S05-1892), Three
Servants, ink and watercolor
Degas, Dancer, charcoal drawing
Degas, Dancer, charcoal drawing
Monet,
Rii;er at
Montages,
oil
Monet, Haystac\s
in
Monet, Belle
Sunshine,
Isle,
Toulouse-Lautrec,
Sunshine,
Guy and
Raoul Dufy (1877-1953),
oil
oil
Mealy, lithograph
A
Bather, gouache
Picasso,
A
Mendicant, ink and chalk
Picasso,
A
V^oman
Picasso,
Two
Seated, ink and watercolor
Pigeons, gouache
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Philip
Marvin
S.
Hiebert,
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Sally
Associate
Director;
Secretary; Dolores
of Bulletin; Alice Pennell,
and Secretary;
Receptionist
Field,
Jr.,
Museum
Membership Secretary and Editor
Receptionist;
Museum
Schmah,
Merle
Pottle,
Superintendent.
Committee on Art
Bowdoin College
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H. Hupper, Neal
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Frost,
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