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A Turn of the Century by Seward Johnson ©1995, 2001 The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. www.sculpturefoundation.org
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, is where the 1883 Renoir painting titled Dance at Bougival
resides. It was one of a series of three paintings Renoir did of couples dancing. In Dance at Bougival
The couple twirl in an outdoor cafe scene near Paris. This is the painting that has been brought not so much to life, but to three dimensions and bigger than life, by artist J. Seward Johnson. His 20 foot tall bronze depiction of the dancers in Renoir’s painting graced PPG Plaza for a short time in 2014.
A Turn of the Century by Seward Johnson ©1995, 2001 The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. www.sculpturefoundation.org
A Turn of the Century is part of Mr Johnson’s Beyond the Frame
series of sculptures. The series is done from Impressionist paintings, and on his website the artist says
I find it so moving to watch people interact with these sculptures. That is one thing that these pieces do – they invite an intimacy with the paintings that the paintings themselves don’t allow simply due to the limitation of scale, depth and access.
A twirl around the sculpture:
A Turn of the Century by Seward Johnson ©1995, 2001 The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. www.sculpturefoundation.org
A Turn of the Century by Seward Johnson ©1995, 2001 The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. www.sculpturefoundation.org
A Turn of the Century by Seward Johnson ©1995, 2001 The Sculpture Foundation, Inc. www.sculpturefoundation.org
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