Seeing Nature: Landscape Masterworks at NOMA

At the New Orleans Museum of Art, masterpieces spanning five centuries trace the development of landscape painting, from a small window on the world to interpretations of artists’ personal experiences with their surroundings on land and sea. Including pieces by Paul Cézanne, David Hockney, Edward Hopper, Gustav Klimt, Claude Monet, Thomas Moran, Georgia O’Keeffe, Gerhard Richter and J.M.W. Turner, the exhibit reveals the power of landscape to locate the viewer in time and place—to record, explore, and understand the natural and man-made world. 

This exhibition is particularly strong in the works of Claude Monet. Five Monet landscapes spanning thirty years are featured, from views of the French countryside to one of his late representations of water lilies, Le Bassin aux Nymphéas of 1919. Cézanne and his fellow post‐impressionists used a more subjective approach to creating works such as La Montagne Sainte-Victoire (1888-90). Also on view is Austrian painter Gustav Klimt’s rare landscape masterpiece, Birch Forest of 1903, exhibited for the first time since 2006.

Tuesday—Sunday in New Orleans' City Park. noma.org.