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Charlotte's Mint Museum to open major exhibition from New Orleans
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Published: March 8, 2009
The Mint Museum of Art in Charlotte will open Saturday the traveling exhibition "Masterworks from the New Orleans Museum of Art." The show is composed of about 90 pieces selected from the museum's European and American collections. On display will be works from the late-17th through mid-20th centuries by artists including Paul Cezanne, Joan Miro, Claude Monet, Georgia O'Keeffe, Picasso, Jackson Pollock and John Singer Sargent. Of particular note are paintings, drawings, pastels and sculpture by Edgar Degas, who often visited New Orleans to see family, and a 10-foot-tall painting of Marie Antoinette by Elisabeth Louise Vigee-Lebrun, one of the few acclaimed women artists of the 18th century.
"Masterworks" will be on display through June 21. The fees that NOMA receives from the exhibition will be added to its Katrina Recovery Fund. The museum sustained more than $6 million worth of damage in the catastrophic 2005 hurricane.
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