Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist Exhibition Catalogue

Drawings, prints, photographs, monotypes, and more, all from a single private collection, are featured in the exhibition and accompanying catalogue Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist – Works on Paper by the Artist and his Circle and now available.  On view at the Muscarelle through May 29, 2022, the exhibition and this accompanying text endeavors to illuminate the background and personality of Edgar Degas the man, as well as to present his genius as an artist.

Edgar Degas: The Private Impressionist highlights the artist’s interests and individual methods of creating through experimentation and touch upon notable themes of Degas’ oeuvre such as anatomy, horse racing, and the ballet.  Although often aloof to strangers, Degas shared warmth and loyalty with his family as well as with a wide circle of friends, which included some of the greatest writers and artists of the epoch.  Featured works by Degas’ circle include Mary Cassatt, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Paul Cézanne, Édouard Manet, Camille Pissarro, and Edweard Muybridge, among others are illustrated in the catalogue.

This hardcover, full-color exhibition catalogue is 126 pages and features essays by collector Robert Flynn Johnson, Curator Emeritus of the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Art in San Francisco, as well an essay by Louise Siddons, Ph.D., Professor in Art History at Oklahoma State University, with a preface by Degas expert, Ann Dumas, Curator of The Royal Academy, London.