On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

SAN ANTONIO — “Who can resist a painting of a big slab of butter?” Mary Morton asked a group of art patrons and media members as they previewed “Intimate Impressionism from the National Gallery of Art ...

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, ...

NEW YORK - Many American painters, inspired by French Impressionists at the turn of the 20th century, flocked from East Coast cities to sun-dappled garden havens in places like Appledore, Maine; Old ...

It's hard to imagine today, but colour has been the subject of significant controversy for much of the history of Western art. In fact it's only relatively recently that it pushed past the stigma to ...

Neither endlessly reprinted on mugs and t-shirts nor massively framed in living rooms: these ten Impressionist paintings are a far cry from the world-famous masterpieces you already know about. And ...

Stepping into the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) this spring and summer, visitors may feel as though they’ve fallen into an Impressionist landscape painting. That’s ...

While French Impressionism is often the most talked-about art movement, American artists in the late 19 th and early 20 th centuries carved out their own distinct voice with it and created American ...

“The Crimson Rambler,” by Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931), c. 1908, oil on canvas, will be on display as part of “The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement 1887-1920,” at ...