Madron Gallery will be closed November 26 - 28, 2025.
Michelle Bolinger
David Burliuk
Marisol Cervantes
Gerald Coarding
Joseph Friebert
Mary Celeste Griffin
John D. Graham
Stacie Maya Johnson
William S. Schwartz
Charles Green Shaw
Bruce Thorn
On view: September 29 - December 19, 2025
Artists’ Reception: Thursday, November 6, 2025, 5:30 - 8:30 pm
Installation view of Conversations in Abstraction at Madron Gallery, 2025.
Robert Vonnoh (1858-1933), Girl with French Poppies, c. 1888-1890, oil on canvas, 32 x 21 in.
In 1891 Robert Vonnoh sent a large-scale canvas to the Salon des Champs-Élysées, a painting that at the time was simply titled Coquelicots (Poppies). The painting has since been rededicated post-World War I as In Flanders Field- Where Soldiers Sleep and Poppies Grow, following John McCrae’s famous 1915 poem honoring fallen soldiers (Butler Institute of American Art). Between 1888 and 1890 Vonnoh created several plein air paintings of poppy flowers while studying at an artist’s colony in Grez-sur-Loing, near the Forest of Fontainebleau and only a two-hour train ride from Paris. The rural village, appealing mostly to American, British, and Scandinavian artists, looking to practice in the French countryside, was close to Barbizon—a key location for artists like Jean-François Millet and Théodore Rousseau in the 1850s.
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