Name: Curator Tour | Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Start: 2025-11-14T19:00:00+08:00
Location: 1 St. Andrew’s Road, Singapore, Singapore 178957

Curator Tour | Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Fri 14 Nov | 7pm | Meeting Point: National Gallery Singapore, City Hall Wing, Level 3, Singtel Special Exhibition Gallery 3, Exhibition entrance (near Lift Lobby B) | $55 (Standard) and $50 (Concession), registration required: https://www.nationalgallery.sg/sg/en/guided-tours/Curator-Tour-Into-the-Modern-Impressionism-from-the-Museum-of-Fine-Arts-Boston.html?123
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Curators of “Into the Modern: Impressionism from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston”—Phoebe Scott (Senior Curator, National Gallery Singapore) and Julia Welch (Arthur K. Solomon Assistant Curator of Paintings, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)—will take participants on a private tour of the exhibition, and speak to the connection between the modernity represented in Impressionism and our present experience. Participants will be guided to have a deep encounter with the works of art, discover what they reveal about the world that the artists inhabited and portrayed—marked by profound social transformation caused by rapid urbanisation—and come away with an appreciation of the artists’ sensitivity to how these changes re-shaped the environment, patterns of labour and leisure, representations of gender, and Parisian public life.
Works featured on this tour include Edgar Degas' “At the Races in the Countryside”, a work which was displayed at the inaugural 1874 Impressionist exhibition; Pierre-Auguste Renoir's “Dance at Bougival” that features a slice of modern life in the outskirts of Paris; Berthe Morisot's “White Flowers in a Bowl”, a highly experimental still life painted with an immediate and direct approach; and Victorine Meurent's “Self-Portrait”, a recent discovery which has sparked further research into her artistic endeavours. The enduring visual appeal of Impressionism is highlighted by the selection of works by Claude Monet that will also be discussed, such as “Grainstack (Snow Effect)” from his iconic series that sees him capturing the same subject at different moments, each a fleeting yet timeless image all at once.
This curator tour will take place after exhibition opening hours, and is exclusive to a maximum of 20 participants.

Ticket includes:
This curator tour and the requisite exhibition entry
1 x limited edition National Gallery Singapore 10th Anniversary tote bag
2 x All Access Passes valid for 3 months (worth $30 for Singaporeans/PRs, $60 for Other Nationalities)
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About the Curators
Phoebe Scott is Senior Curator and Curator of Research Publications at National Gallery Singapore. Her curatorial projects include “Between Declarations and Dreams: Art of Southeast Asia since the 19th Century” (2015), which is the inaugural exhibition of the Gallery’s Southeast Asia galleries, “Reframing Modernism: Painting from Southeast Asia, Europe and Beyond” (2016), “Familiar Others: Emiria Sunassa, Eduardo Masferré and Yeh Chi Wei, 1940s–70s” (2022), and most recently, “City of Others: Asian Artists in Paris, 1920s-1940s” (2025). She holds a PhD in Art History and Theory from the University of Sydney on modern Vietnamese art.
Julia Welch is the Arthur K. Solomon Assistant Curator of Paintings in the Art of Europe department at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, specialising in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Since 2013, she has worked on numerous in-house and touring exhibitions focused on the Museum’s deep Impressionist collection, as well as avant-garde artists of the early 20th century. Her recent exhibitions include “Monet and Boston: Lasting Impression” (2020), “Turner’s Modern World” (2022), “Mondrian: Foundations” (2023), “Dalí: Disruption and Devotion” (2024), “Renoir and Love” (2025), and an upcoming exhibition of Degas’s portraits co-organised with the Städel Museum in Frankfurt.
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