I took advantage of free time + being downtown.

Thursday afternoon:    Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: the Modern Landscape is this summer's big show at the Art Institute.  I'd heard of Van Gogh and Seurat, of course, but I was not familiar with their contemporaries Signac, Bernard, and Angrand.

From the website:  


Between 1882 and 1890, five artists—Vincent van Gogh, along with Georges Seurat, Paul Signac,   Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand—flocked to villages on the fringes of Paris. Unlike the earlier Impressionists, who in the previous decade had spent significant time in suburban locations further from the ...

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