The Road to Nieuport

The Road to Nieuport
nationality
Belgian
birth-death
1854-1930
Creation date
1888
Materials
oil on canvas
Dimensions
21 5/8 x 26 in.
Currently On View
Location
Robert H. & Ina M. Mohlman Gallery
Credit line
Gift in memory of Robert S. Ashby by his family and friends
Accession number
1997.140
Provenance
Provenance Research is on-going at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and information will be added to this record as research is completed. Please contact Annette Schlagenhauff, Assoc. Curator of Research, at aschlagenhauff@imamuseum.org with any questions.
Gallery Label

When Seurat first exhibited in Brussels in 1887, several progressive Belgian artists were attracted to methods. Finch was the first one to adopt Neo-Impressionism, and this landscape is one of his early efforts to use pointillist brushwork and divided color. His deft blend of geometric simplicity and gentle luminosity, accented by the image's sense of stillness and detachment, demonstrates Finch's exceptional affinity with the work of Seurat.

The unusual subject of sheep grazing amid a row of electricity poles may be the artist's wry commentary on the interaction of rural life and industrialization.

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