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Winter 20 www.afamag.com | www.incollect.com HIGHLIGHT S The Portland Art Museum is pleased to present a major exhibition exploring the evolution of European and American landscape painting. Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection features thirty-nine paintings from five centuries of masterpieces drawn from the collection of Microsoft co-founder and philanthropist Paul G. Allen. Co-organized by the Portland Art Museum, the Seattle Art Museum, and the Paul G. Allen Family Collection, the exhibition presents masterpieces by artists Jan Brueghel the Younger, Canaletto, Joseph Mallord William Turner, Paul Cézanne, Gustav Klimt, David Hockney, and Gerhard Richter. Paintings by Thomas Moran, Edward Hopper, Georgia O’Keeffe, Thomas Hart Benton, and others provide an American perspective on landscapes at home and abroad. Seeing Nature includes five Impressionist canvases painted in France, London, and Venice by the French master Claude Monet. “ Seeing Nature offers an extraordinary opportunity to perceive the world through the gaze of some of the most important artists in history,” said Brian Ferriso, The Marilyn H. and Dr. Robert B. Pamplin Jr. Director of the Portland Art Museum, who is curating the exhibition in Portland. “These masterpieces have never before been on display together. Paul Allen is one of the Northwest’s most significant art collectors and philanthropists, and his willingness to share his landscape masterpieces with our visitors offers an unprecedented chance to be inspired by works of art.” The exhibition will travel to The Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C, the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and the New Orleans Museum of Art before closing at the Seattle Art Museum in early 2017. Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks from the Paul G. Allen Family Collection Portland Art Museum, 1219 SW Park Avenue, Portland, OR Through January 10, 2016 For information call 503.226.2811 or visit www.portlandartmuseum.org Claude Monet, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas, 1919. Oil on canvas, 39⅜ x 78⅞ inches. Courtesy of Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Joseph Mallord William Turner, Depositing of John Bellini’s Three Pictures in La Chiesa Redentore, Venice, 1841. Oil on canvas, 29 x 45½ inches. Courtesy of Paul G. Allen Family Collection. Georgia O’Keeffe, Black Iris, VI, 1936. Oil on canvas, 36 x 24 inches. Courtesy of Paul G. Allen Family Collection.