Take an on-line tour of The Metropolitan Museum of Art exhibition, Americans in Paris.
The experience of Paris transformed American art. As Henry James remarked in 1887: "It sounds like a paradox, but it is a very simple truth, that when to-day we look for 'American art' we find it mainly in Paris. When we find it out of Paris, we at least find a great deal of Paris in it." This exhibition examines why Paris was a magnet for Americans, what they found there and how they responded to it, and which lessons they ultimately brought back to the United States.
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