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July 21, 2010
Gail Stavitsky and Katherine Rothkopf Cézanne and American Modernism Exh. cat. Baltimore and New Haven: Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press, 2009. 376 pp.; 190 color ills. Cloth $65.00 (9780300147155)

Exhibition schedule: Montclair Museum of Art, Montclair, NJ, September 13, 2009–January 3, 2010; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, February 14–May 23, 2010; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, July 1–September 26, 2010

 
CrossRef DOI: 10.3202/caa.reviews.2010.82

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In the first gallery of the Montclair Art Museum’s excellent and illuminating exhibition, Cézanne and American Modernism, two arresting views of Mont Sainte-Victoire from 1927 by the American artist Marsden Hartley flanked a painting by Paul Cézanne of the same subject, Mont Sainte-Victoire Seen from the Bibémus Quarry (ca. 1897), an exemplary work by that artist, acquired by the Baltimore collector Claribel Cone in 1925. The comparison drawn between Cézanne and Hartley (same subject, related...