WILLIAMSTOWN, MASSACHUSETTS.- The exhibition Gustav Klimt: Landscapes has just opened at the Clark Art Institute, on view until September 2, 2002. 15 large-scale landscapes are the focus of a region-wide series of exhibitions of Austrian art dubbed "The Vienna Project". Created from the 1890s until the artist’s death in 1918, colorful and often poetic landscape paintings represent a relatively little-known aspect of the work of the great Viennese Symbolist Gustav Klimt. This exhibition, the first devoted exclusively to Klimt’s landscapes, surveys the development of his style and highlights his favorite subjects, including the orchards, woods, gardens, and villas around the Attersee in western Austria. The exhibition will establish Klimt as a landscapist of exceptional daring who synthesized a range of influences, among them Japanese art, Van Gogh, Austrian landscape traditions, Cezanne, and his unique Viennese modernism, to create something entirely new and radical. Rarely seen landscapes by Klimt from public and private collections in Europe and the United States will be exhibited.