Gallery Talk: A Landscape Artist Responds

Suzanne Chamlin, Associate Professor of Studio Art and an artist whose own practice focuses on landscape, will offer her reflections on the paintings on view in the exhibition Dusk & Dawn: Tonalism in Connecticut on Friday, January 31 at 12 noon in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries. Space is limited.

(Note: Professor Chamlin’s work was featured in a 2024 exhibition in the Bellarmine Hall Galleries; click here to learn more!)

About the Exhibition: This exhibition explores Tonalism in the United States from the 1880s to the early 20th century, through artists from the Northeast such as George Inness, John Henry Twachtman, and John Francis Murphy. Tonalism is a transitional movement that grew out of and reacted to the Hudson River School of painting and laid the groundwork for modernism. Evocative landscapes, evoking a spiritual connection to the natural world, often painted from memory, are the primary genre of this movement. The more than fifty artworks in this exhibition are drawn from private and institutional collections.

Image: J. Alden Weir, Connecticut Hilltops, ca. 1900, oil on panel. Private collection, Connecticut

Host or Publisher Fairfield University Art Museum