Palmer Museum presents exhibition on unconventional French printmaker Félix Buhot

This fall the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State spotlights one of the most original French printmakers of the nineteenth century. Fantasy and Reality: The World According to Félix Buhot opened September 25 and will be accompanied by related gallery talks and programs throughout the fall. “Felix Buhot’s achievement as a visionary artist-etcher is unprecedented,” stated museum director Erin M. Coe. “This exquisite and evocative exhibition provides visitors the space to study exceptional examples of Buhot’s experimental techniques and rich atmospheric effects for which he is best known.” Félix Buhot (1847–1898) was a uniquely experimental printmaker in France during the last quarter of the nineteenth century. This period was marked by a growing interest among artists in the evocation of thoughts and emotions, which competed in the art world with lingering realist tendencies. Buhot found co