Maurice Brazil Prendergast (1858-1924), Venetian Palaces on the Grand Canal, 1899, watercolor and pencil on off-white wove paper, 14 x 20 3/4 in. Collection of Karen A. and Kevin W. Kennedy

WASHINGTON, DC.- The surprising exchange between American artists and the first filmmakers at the turn of the 20th century is the subject of a provocative exhibition on view at The Phillips Collection. Moving Pictures: American Art and Early Film is the first exhibition to fully integrate cinema into the history of American art, rewriting traditional views of visual culture in the early 1900s. This critically acclaimed exhibition features a landmark installation of 46 flat-screen monitors playing 60 of the earliest films, juxtaposed with 85 paintings, illustrations, photographs, posters, and flipbooks from 1880-1910. By displaying these short films—by Thomas Alva Edison, the Lumière Brothers, and American Mutoscope & Biograph Co.—alongside works of similar subject matter by artists such as George Bellows, Thomas Eakins, Childe Hassam, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, and John Sloan, Moving Pictures reveals how the powerful relationship between film and the visual arts created a radically new vision of modern life. The Phillips Collection is the final stop on the national tour of the exhibition. Moving Pictures remains on view through May 20, 2007. la suite sur http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19528

Légende de la petite illustration : John Sloan (1871-1951), Sun and Wind on the Roof, 1915, Oil on canvas, 24 x 20 inches, Collection of the Maier Museum of Art, Randolph-Macon Woman’s College, Lynchburg, Virginia, Fine Arts Fund, 1947