Coming soon to LACMA, two winter exhibitions will celebrate the layered histories of the museum's Impressionist and Postimpressionist art holdings.
Opening this Sunday, December 21, Collecting Impressionism at LACMA looks back at the evolving tastes that have shaped the museum's beloved collection of Impressionist art. The exhibition traces early donations of California and American Impressionist pictures, strategic acquisitions in prints, photographs, fashion, and decorative arts, as well as the most recent gifts including The Artist’s Garden, Vétheuil (1881) by Claude Monet and Tarascon Stagecoach (1888), the museum’s first painting by Vincent van Gogh. The exhibition’s featured works underscore the continued generosity of LACMA’s community of donors.
Featuring over 100 works, from early acquisitions of American and California Impressionism to donations of paintings by Edgar Degas and Camille Pissarro from major Hollywood collectors, art was a tool of cultural legitimization that helped the institution grow in tandem with a developing city. Collecting Impressionism at LACMA illuminates the ways in which museum collections are constructed, and by extension, suggests how visitors can read the museum as a site of changing taste and changing narratives.
Taking a closer look at the latest chapter in this history of giving, Village Square: Gifts of Modern Art from the Pearlman Collection to the Brooklyn Museum, LACMA, and MoMA opens February 22, 2026. The exhibition will showcase expressive landscapes and striking portraits by Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Édouard Manet, Amedeo Modigliani, Alfred Sisley, Chaïm Soutine, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, and others.
Village Square's nearly 50 paintings, sculptures, and works on paper of European Postimpressionism and modernism from the Henry and Rose Pearlman Collection honor the Pearlmans’ belief in art’s power to create shared experiences and foster connections. Following LACMA’s presentation, the collection will travel to the Brooklyn Museum in the fall. The Museum of Modern Art will present an exhibition at a later date.
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