IN the 1880’s when rotund Camille Pissarro walked into Paris’ Cafe de la Nouvelle Athenes with his great prophet’s beard streaming and his portfolio tucked under his arms, fellow artists would greet ...

The 19th-century painter was in Spain when she painted this early gem, now in Philadelphia Balconies are like stages. For painters, they provide a ready-made tableau. They’re places where people ...

The impressionists of the early 19th century had a special ability to capture nuance in everyday scenes—bright afternoons, a moment at a café, and luminous sunsets. A new exhibition at the Denver Art ...

Our beloved Monets are currently having an extended family reunion at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. One of the prized possessions in the vast SBMA permanent collection is Claude Monet’s “Villas in ...

JOHN HOUSE Impressionism: Paint and Politics New Haven: Yale University Press, 2004. 256 pp.; 63 color ills., 117 b/w. $50.00 JOACHIM PISSARRO Pioneering Modern Painting: Cézanne and Pissarro, ...

An image of Grant Wood's Amber (Indian Creek — Fall) completed in 1927. This piece is an oil on board painting that measures 13 x 15 inches. The piece was gifted to the museum by John Reid Cooper and ...

Pilgrim, Dianne H., "American Impressionist and Realist Paintings and Drawings from the Collection of Mr. & Mrs. Raymond J. Horowitz," New York: Metropolitan Museum ...

There’s something disheartening—a note of special pleading—about the subtitle, “Woman Impressionist,” of a breathtaking Berthe Morisot retrospective at the Barnes Foundation, in Philadelphia. (Imagine ...

Aside from the flurry of daubs that coalesce into a few modest if lush green landscapes from the late nineteenth century, there’s little that’s identifiably Impressionist, or even modern, in the ...

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library welcomes back art historian Linda Blair with a new lecture series, Impressionism. For many years now, Blair has been one of the Athenaeum’s most popular speakers.