Retrospective coverage for October 17, 2026. First published October 26, 2026 06:07 -07:00 (Pacific time). This is an AI-assisted brief compiled from linked public source records; the coverage date is not the publication date.
Two San Diego Museum of Art displays list Oct. 17 as their opening date: Landscape: Nature and Evolution and Paris After 1900. Both are presented as ongoing installations on the museum’s second floor, in galleries 18 and 19 respectively. Landscape exhibition; Paris exhibition
The landscape presentation traces changing interpretations of the natural world across five centuries of painting. The museum describes a progression from scenery used as a setting for religious or mythological subjects toward landscape as a principal subject in its own right. Later sections address artists’ responses to nature’s scale and the outdoor practices associated with Realism and Impressionism.
The adjacent Paris display focuses on modernist approaches that followed Impressionism. Its description encompasses Post-Impressionist, Pointillist, Fauve and Nabis artists, emphasizing the different paths artists took in challenging established conventions in the early twentieth century.
The museum’s Paris page features Suzanne Valadon’s 1930 painting Young Girl in Front of a Window. The landscape page features Asher Brown Durand’s 1848 Landscape-Composition: In The Catskills.
Together, the listings offer visitors two distinct ways to follow artistic change: the evolving treatment of nature and the emergence of modernist approaches in France.