The Swedish artist Anders Zorn steps out of the shadows of history for “Anders Zorn: A European Seduces America,” coming to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum at the end of February.
“Too young to be an Impressionist, too old to be a Modernist,” says Oliver Tostmann, the Gardner museum’s curator of the collection, who is organizing the exhibit. “He’s forgotten in the US, and largely in Europe.”
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I went to see the Zorn exhibition this week-end, spurred by the Globe's review. Unfortunately, I was disappointed: Zorn is just not very talented and, despite multiple attempts throughout the exhibition to demonstrate the contrary, not in Singer Sargent's league. And the scope of the exhibition is very limited: only a small room of paintings, hardly a retrospective.