Alexandra R. Murphy
Jean-Francois Millet: Drawn Into the Light
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1998.
192 pp.; 65 color ills.; 65 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0300079257)
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The American public has not given works by Barbizon artists star billing in a little over a century. Where once Americans were proud of themselves for having recognized Millet’s talents early, they are now harder to please. Since Impressionist art has risen to blockbuster fame, it takes a monumental effort to call attention to the considerable but subtle charm of what Millet referred to as “rustic art.” The subtitle of this exhibition, “Drawn into the...