BALTIMORE, MARYLAND.- The exhibition Cézanne and the Transformed Landscape opens today at the Baltimore Museum of Art and remains on view until August 25, 2002. The BMA celebrates the return of its beloved French masterpieces to the Cone Wing with a special focus exhibition of remarkable landscapes by Paul Cézanne, the painter who had the most significant influence on Matisse’s career. Considered one of the greatest late 19th-century artists, Cézanne believed that color and form should be inseparable in art, and he tried to emphasize structure and solidity in his landscapes—features he thought were overlooked by Impressionists such as Claude Monet and Alfred Sisley. The incomparable Mont Sainte-Victoire, Seen from the Bibemus Quarry (c. 1897), one of the most important works in the Museum’s collection, will be joined by three dramatic Cézanne landscapes on loan from The Museum of Modern Art in New York. These magnificent examples of the artist’s work from the 1880s and 1890s show the evolution of his painting technique and provide a rare opportunity to view these works together. An additional gallery of paintings, drawings, and prints from the Museum’s collection will highlight Cézanne’s influence on later artists and explore the changing nature of landscape painting during the early 20th century.