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The Carter and the Metropolitan Museum of Art lend pieces to each other
The Carter and the Met are at it again: lending each other striking pieces of art.
By ANDREW MARTON
dfw.com
The Amon Carter Museum and New York’s Metropolitan Museum of Art are at it again: lending each other striking pieces of art.
Borrowed from the Met, and hanging in the Carter’s galleries, are Thomas Eakins’ The Artist’s Wife and his Setter Dog and Mary Cassatt’s Lydia Crocheting in the Garden at Marly.
The Carter returned the favor by sending the Met two of its most famous masterpieces: Eakins’ Swimming and Idle Hours by William Merritt Chase. The Met is including both works in its current exhibition, "American Stories: Paintings of Everyday Life, 1765-1915."
This is not the first time the Carter has loaned some of its most precious art. In 2004, it shipped the Met Childe Hassam’s Flags on the Waldorf. Two years later, it loaned Swimming to Paris’ Louvre museum.
The Carter has one of its Georgia O’Keeffe canvases, Series I – No. 1, on loan to the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. In addition, the Carter has temporarily sent six paintings and a bronze sculpture by Charles M. Russell to the Denver Art Museum.
The two Met-loaned works will be on view at the Carter through Jan. 25. The Met is expected to return its two Carter works shortly after Jan. 24.
Andrew Marton is a Star-Telegram senior arts writer. 817-390-7679
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