HE SAINT Louis Art Museum’s “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape” ably handles the work of two major figures in the modernist canon, providing visitors with a unique opportunity to view their creative approaches to the landscape genre. The paintings, all created in two small villages northwest of Paris, sing in concert with one another, providing a shared meditation on place and memory, landscape, and abstraction. The show, which will be open to the public through June 25, 2023, features 24 major canvases, 12 by each artist, highlighting Claude Monet’s late career compositions and Joan Mitchell’s work as an expatriate after 1959. The resulting narrative never privileges one
