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Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors, was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
Impressionism emerged as an artistic style in France in the 1860s. Major exhibitions of French impressionist works in Boston and New York in the 1880s introduced the style to the American public. Some of the first American artists to paint in an impressionistic mode, such as Theodore Robinson, did so in the late 1880s after visiting France and meeting with artists such as Claude Monet. Others, such as Childe Hassam, took notice of the increasing numbers of French impressionist works at American exhibitions.
From the 1890s through the 1910s, American impressionism flourished in art colonies—loosely affiliated groups of artists who lived and worked together and shared a common aesthetic vision. Art colonies tended to form in small towns that provided affordable living, abundant scenery for painting, and relatively easy access to large cities where artists could sell their work. Some of the most important American impressionist artists gathered at Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut, both on Long Island Sound; New Hope, Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River; and Brown County, Indiana. American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style.
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#visitbrisbane and go and see The Met's American Impressionism & Realism exhibition before it finishes - 20 Sep! http://tinyurl.com/naml4n
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#visitbrisbane and go and see The Met's American Impressionism & Realism exhibition before it finishes - 20 Sep! http://tinyurl.com/naml4n
American Impressionism & Realism exhibit at the QLD Art Gallery is fantastic. Highly recommended.
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American Impressionism & Realism exhibit at the QLD Art Gallery is fantastic. Highly recommended.
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American Impressionism - National Gallery of Art. Over the past forty years, Margaret and Raymond Horowitz have assembled a superb collection of American art from the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Excerpts from the exhibition catalogue including comments from the collector Raymond Horowitz, illustrated essays on 12 works from the exhibition, and 8 artist biographies
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American Impressionism - The article dedicated to the exhibition at The Minneapolis Institute of Arts with brief history of American Impressionism, links to the pages of major American Impressionists artists and to the several other articles on American Impressionism
American Impressionism - Article about the exhibition of the paintings of the American impressionists at the Worcester Art Museum in Massachusetts.
American Impressionism - Short history of the movement.
American Impressionism - Paintings of Promise - Full text essay with notes by David R. Brigham reprinted on May 16, 2002 in Resource Library Magazine.
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American Impressionism Along the Connecticut Shore - An article from the Maine Antique Digest about several exhibitions in Connecticut where works of the American impressionists were present.
American Impressionism Goes West - Essay by Charles C. Eldredge, PhD, reprinted with permission of the Georgia Museum of Art. Includes notes and author information.
An American Tradition: The Pennsylvania Impressionists - Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania.
ArtLex on American Impressionists - Examples of artworks by American Impressionists Mary Cassatt, Julian Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Frederick Carl Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Frank Benson, and others with quotations and links to other resources.
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Haber's Art Reviews: American Realism and Impressionism - An article about the exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1994.
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Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore - Full text article by Carter B. Horsley provides an overview American Impressionist painters, who flourished in the Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut.
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