Classical landscapes hung beside new paintings that answer them, three centuries apart.
Claude Lorrain painted the same idea again and again: a wide valley, a band of trees, a river catching the last light, and a few small figures who never seem in a hurry. Three hundred years later his pictures are still how many of us imagine a perfect landscape.
A conversation across three centuries
After Claude hangs three classical landscapes, on loan from a private collection, beside new paintings by artists who answer them. Some borrow his golden light, some his careful structure of foreground, middle and far distance, and some push back against the calm altogether.
We have kept the hang simple: old and new side by side at eye level, with short notes from each artist on what they took and what they left behind.
Bring someone with you. This is a show that is best argued about.
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