By LENNIE BENNETT, Times art critic
Published January 13, 2005
[Museum of Fine Arts]
Claude Monet is the star of the big exhibition opening at the Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg on Sunday, but "Monet's London: Artists' Reflections on the Thames, 1859-1914" features other important names, too. In addition to 12 paintings by the French impressionist, the 150-piece show boasts works by Whistler, Hassam, Homer, Derain, Tissot, Pissarro and Daubigny. The show is themed around Monet's series of paintings of the river at the turn of the century, bracketed by other artists' evocations of it before and after. It's an ambitious show and a major one for the area; don't miss it. A preview of the show will be published in the Floridian section Sunday; for more about it, go to www.sptimes.com/monet/ For museum information, call 727 896-2667.
