The Santa Barbara Museum of Art (SBMA) this fall will be a place to experience two major exhibits of Impressionist and 19th-Century art.

The Impressionist Revolution: Monet to Matisse from the Dallas Museum of Art explores the rebellious origins of the independent artist collective known as the Impressionists and the revolutionary course they charted for modern art.

The exhibit features an array of paintings, including works by Monet, van Gogh, Gauguin, Matisse, Mondrian, Morisot and Munch, tell a story of a plucky group of artists who challenged the status quo and won, changing art forever.

Organized on the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the first Impressionist exhibition, The Impressionist Revolution invites visitors to reconsider the featured artists as the scandalous renegades they at one time were, as well as the considerable impact they had on 20th-century art.

Encore: 19th-Century French Art from the Santa Barbara Museum of Art has more than 40 artworks on view.

Using 19th-century paintings and photographs, the exhibit takes viewers on a virtual tour of Parisian sites, such as Notre Dame, Eiffel Tour, Notre Dame, the Louvre, and the bohemian enclave of Montmartre with its dance halls and artist hangouts.

From there, it heads to the farms and forests of the French countryside with additional stops in Normandy and Brittany. The trip ends with London, a second city for Impressionists, and two Monet paintings of the Foggy River

Tickets to both exhibits will be available to the public Saturday, Aug. 30 at https://www.sbma.net/ticketing/ir-encore-2025.

Encore is co-curated by James Glisson, SBMA chief curator; Andrew Witte, SBMA curatorial assistant; and Charles Wylie, former SBMA curator of Photography and New Media.

The Impressionist Revolution is curated by Nicole R. Myers, chief curatorial and research officer, The Barbara Thomas Lemmon Senior Curator of European Art, Dallas Museum of Art. The presentation in Santa Barbara is coordinated by SBMA’s Glisson.