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Introduction

Emily Beeny
Associate Curator, Norton Simon Museum

Elizabeth Benjamin
Research Associate, European Sculpture and Decorative Arts, The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Sarah Cash
Associate Curator of American and British Paintings, National Gallery of Art

Hollis Clayson
Professor of Art History, Northwestern University

Margaret M. Doyle 
Associate Curator, Department of Exhibition Programs, National Gallery of Art

Jennifer Henel 
Curatorial Associate, Northern Baroque Paintings, National Gallery of Art

Paul B. Jaskot
Andrew W. Mellon Professor/CASVA

Marni Kessler
Associate Professor, Kress Foundation Department of Art History, University of Kansas

Kevin D. Murphy
Andrew W. Mellon Chair in the Humanities, Professor and Chair, the Department of the History of Art, Vanderbilt University

Nicole R. Myers
Associate Curator, European Painting and Sculpture, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Galina Olmsted
PhD Candidate, University of Delaware

Caroline Shields
PhD Candidate, University of Maryland

Considering Caillebotte

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Gustave Caillebotte: The Painter’s Eye (on view from June 28, 2015 through October 4, 2015) brings together 55 paintings by the artist, many of them from private collections. As there is no major public repository of Caillebotte’s work, the exhibition offers a rare opportunity to experience the paintings by this lesser known impressionist "in the flesh." Here, art historians share their thoughts on some of the works in the show.

Image: Gustave Caillebotte, Paris Street, Rainy Day (detail), 1877, oil on canvas, The Art Institute of Chicago, Charles H. and Mary F. S. Worcester Collection. Photography © The Art Institute of Chicago