National art tour makes final stop at SAM, explores France's food identity Ruby de Luna October 30, 2025 / 1:32 pm

France is known for its fine cuisine. A new exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum explores how that came to be.

"Farm to Table: Food and Identity in the Age of Impressionism" features more than 50 works of noted Impressionist artists, including Claude Monet and Paul Gauguin. The art depicts farmers, food workers, and consumers in late 19th century France.

Curator Theresa Papanikolas says the country was coming out of a period of upheaval.

“It had been taken over by the Germans in the Franco-Prussian War and occupied for what, two years. Paris had suffered a revolution… there were food shortages,” Papanikolas explained. “And French people turned to food, especially in

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