WISCASSET

“Impressionism in France, Italy and America” will open at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery on Aug. 8 with a reception from 5-7 p.m.

Of particular note in the exhibition is an oil by Hungarian artist Lazlo Medgyes of colorful beach umbrellas and sunbathers along the Cote d’Azur. Medgyes came to Paris in the 1920s and was involved in opera and theatre design. He also travelled throughout France painting in the Loire Valley and the southern coast. Contemporaries of Medgyes exhibiting are Lucien Genin, who worked in gouache and captured the parks and back streets of Montmarte, and Jean Salabet, who preferred to paint the open boulevards of Paris with flower vendors and busy street life.

American Impressionists works on view include a sailboat leaving harbor by Max Kuehne, three fishermen climbing the hill with Monhegan harbor seen in the background by Edmund Ward and Reynolds Beal’s crayon drawing of the Christy Brothers Circus in Salem in 1928.

Among the Italian impressionist paintings on display is an oil of Venice in broken brush strokes by Cipriano Mannucci, a pair of ethereal nudes in a landscape by Guglielmo Innocenti and a sunlit Italian village by Alberto Zampieri. The show also features etchings, watercolors and oils by Polly Nordell, Paul Cezanne, Edouard Manet, Andrew Winter and Constantin Westchiloff.

The exhibit opening on Aug. 8 is free and open to the public and light refreshments will be served.

“Impressionism in France, Italy and America” will be on display at the Wiscasset Bay Gallery, 67 Main St., Wiscasset, through Sept. 30. For more information, call (207) 882-7682 or visit wiscassetbaygallery.com.