Caillebotte: Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea

Oarsmen Rowing on the Yerres (1877)

L'Yerres, pluie (1875)

Cliffs of Normandy (1880)

The Brooklyn Museum is a 560,000-square-foot Beaux-Arts building that is one of the oldest and largest art museums in the U.S. On view now through 5 July, 2009 are works by impressionist painter Gustave Caillebotte in an exhibit called Impressionist Paintings from Paris to the Sea. This is the final stop on an international tour and the first major showing of his work in New York in over thirty years.

Known as the “Urban Impressionist", Caillebotte also painted scenes of the coastal life in Normandy and in the villages of Yerres and Petit Gennevilliers. This thematic exhibition showcases forty of his works in which water plays a central role— as an element that reflects its surroundings and focuses on water sports such as rowing. The exhibition also includes drawings and sketches of the sailboats that Caillebotte owned.