Van Ruisdael Exhibit Opens at Fogg

The windmill at Wijk bij Duurstede, the most famous picture by Jacob van Rhuisdael, appears in his first retrospective exhibition which opened at the Fogg Art Museuem yesterday. Ruisdael is widely recognized as the greatest Dutch landscape painter, and over one hundred masterworks by the seventeenth-century painter are on loan from museums and private collections throughout the world. Seymore Slive, director of the Fogg, spent four years preparing the exhibition and has published a book on Ruisdael to accompany it.

The retrospective marks the 300th anniversary of Ruisdael's death and it will be officially opened at a black tie party on Thursday night.

The Fogg showing is the high-point of the Dutch-American cultural exchange planned in 1982 to mark the 300th anniversary of unbroken diplomatic relations between the two countries.

The Fogg exhibition came directly from a showing at the Mauritshuis in The Hague and will be on view until April 11.