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Super Bowl Town Museums Put Impressionist Art On The Line

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Super Bowl XLV is just over a week away and the rivalry between Green Bay and Pittsburgh has heated up. The Milwaukee Art Museum and the Carnegie Museum of Art have decided to make a friendly wager on the football game. The Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reports that each is offering up an Impressionist work of art. If the Packers win the Carnegie Museum will send over Renoir's "Bathers with Crab" for a temporary loan where visitors can see it and not only take in some beautiful art but gloat a bit too. Should the Steelers prove victorious, "Boating on the Yerres" by Gustav Caillebotte will be taking the journey to the Carnegie.

This is the second year in a row that art critic Tyler Green has prompted a bet. Last year the Indianapolis Museum of Art and the New Orleans Museum of Art squared off which resulted "The Fifth Plague of Egypt", 1800, a landscape by British artist J.M.W. Turner spending a few months in new Orleans where it was displayed with a Lombardi-trophy-shaped sign designating the triumph.

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Super Bowl Towns Put Their Art On The Line

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

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Mayors of towns involved in sports conflicts often get into betting deals (usually involving food) but it's not so ordinary to have rival museum directors representing local pride. Art Daily reports that museum directors Maxwell L. Anderson, The Melvin & Bren Simon Director and CEO of the Indianapolis Museum of Art and E. John Bullard, The Montine McDaniel Freeman Director and CEO of the New Orleans Museum of Art have agreed to a Super Bowl wager. The pair began talking via Twitter and have decided that the losing town's museum will make a three-month loan of a significant work of art to the museum in the city whose NFL team wins the Super Bowl on February 7, 2010. Should the Indianapolis Colts win, the landscape painting "Ideal View of Tivoli", 1644, by French artist Claude Lorrain will head from New Orleans to Indianapolis. Should the New Orleans Saints be victorious, "The Fifth Plague of Egypt", 1800, a landscape by British artist J.M.W. Turner will spend a few months in new Orleans. The paintings were decided on after a Twitter war that took trash talking to a new eruidite level.

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