Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape

Join the Villa Albertine for an online event the June 5 at noon! Midwest Museum Talks is a new program of online curatorial talks organized by the Villa Albertine Chicago in collaboration with the museums in the Midwest. In this first installment, join us for a virtual discussion with Simon Kelly!

Villa Albertine Chicago and  Saint Louis Art Museum are thrilled to host an exceptional transatlantic conversation on the dialogue between the work of the French Impressionist painter, Claude Monet, and the American Abstract Expressionist painter, Joan Mitchell. It is grounded in the paintings currently on view in the Saint Louis Art Museum exhibition, Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape, a partnership with the Louis Vuitton Foundation and the Musee Marmottan Monet. The discussion will cover a range of subjects including the two artists’ attitudes to nature, abstraction, music, and poetry. 

This discussion will be moderated by Professor Lionel Cuillé, founder and director of the French connexions center of excellence at Washington University in St. Louis. 

The Speakers

Simon Kelly - Curator and Head of Department of Modern and Contemporary Art at the Saint Louis Art Museum
Simon Kelly has published extensively, particularly on nineteenth and early twentieth-century French art, and organized numerous international loan exhibitions. Kelly is the curator of the Saint Louis exhibition, Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape, and is currently working on an exhibition on Matisse and the sea.

Marianne Mathieu - Art historian and Curator
Marianne Mathieu created the international relations department of the Musée d'Orsay in 2003 and then served for ten years as Deputy Director, head of Collections and Exhibitions of the Musée Marmottan Monet. In 2022, she founded the ACPA agency - Advising Curating Producing Art. She is the author of several essays and books devoted to Claude Monet and Impressionism.