BYU to present Family Art Days exhibit

PROVO — Family Art Days at the Brigham Young University Museum of Art will be Wednesday and Thursday.

Works by impressionistic painter Claude Monet and other 19th century artists will be featured.

The exhibit, titled "Paths to Impressionism: French and American Landscape Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum," traces the stylistic evolution of landscape painting and the changing attitude toward nature in the 19th century through 41 works by French and American artists.

The exhibitions also includes paintings by Camille Pissarro, Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition is on view through July 8.

Family activities introduce children to Monet, the Impressionist movement and other Impressionist artists featured in the museum's exhibition.

Admission is free and open to the public. The event runs both days from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. For more information call the museum at 801-422-8287 or visit the museum's Web site at moa.byu.edu.