COLUMBIA, SC.- To thank the National Museum Wales for sending to Columbia its prized Impressionist art collection, the
Columbia Museum of Art is celebrating St. David’s Day, the Welsh national holiday on March 1, with a special Turner to Cézanne offer for you!
From Sunday, February 15 through Sunday, March 1, buy four or more Turner to Cézanne exhibition tickets at the special rate of $12.00 each. Regular adult admission for Turner to Cézanne is $15 per person.
The exhibition opens to the public on Friday, March 6 and runs through Sunday, June 7. To purchase tickets, visit columbiamuseum.org or call 803.799.2810.
Turner to Cézanne features 53 stunning works of art, seen together in the United States for the first time in Columbia, SC. The National Museum of Wales, known for having one of the finest Impressionist art collections in Europe, is sending to the U.S. highlights from its remarkable Davies Collection, an extraordinary group of 19th- and early 20th-century paintings that is renowned for its beauty and quality.
These works, which helped shape the course of Western art, were assembled between 1908 and 1923 by sisters Gwendoline and Margaret Davies. The collection is exceptionally strong in Impressionist and Post-Impressionist works and includes masterpieces by, among others, Cézanne, Corot, van Gogh, Monet, Daumier, Manet, Millet, Pissarro, Renoir, Turner and Whistler. Some highlights of the exhibition are Renoir’s famous La Parisienne, which was included in the first show of Impressionism in 1874, a Monet Waterlilies, and van Gogh’s panoramic Rain–Auvers, painted during the last week of the artist’s life. The Columbia presentation is made possible by the Blanchard Family.