The Yomiuri Shimbun — The Painters in Grez-Sur-Loing

Tokyo, Japan, The Yomiuri Shimbun / The Japan Association of Art Museums, 2000. Softcover. Color pictorial wraps, 302 pp. many BW & color illus. Text is in Japanese and English. Issued in conjunction with a series of 2000-2001 exhibitions of artwork rendered by artists who painted in this part of France. "Grez is an idyllic village situated along the Loing River, a tributary of the Seine, about seventy kilometers from Paris at the southern edge of the Forest of Fountainebleau. From the latter half of the nineteenth century into the twentieth century, many painters from England, Ireland, Sweden, Norway, America, and Japan gathered there, stayed in its riverside hotels, and painted the pristine atmosphere and the wealth of nature that surrounded it.. This exhibition presents 146 works by 41 artists, including works produced by Japanese painters at Grez and those by European and American painters, who had formed an artists' colony at Grez before the arrival of the Japanese. Featured will be artists such as John Lavery and Frank O'Meara of Ireland, Carl Larsson of Sweden, and Willard Metcalf and Robert Vonnoh of the United States. Through these works, the exhibition will attempt to examine the role Grez played in art history as an artists' community." (foreword) With essays by Arayashiki Toru, Kenneth McConkey, Torsten Gunnarsson, William H. Gerdts, and Mackawa Masahide. Simply lovely. VG (Label & few marks from previous gallery owner; otherwise crisp and clean.) .