Tour: American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s Overview | Start Tour 1 2 3 4 5 6 next room back to American painting Overview Since the development of the oil technique during the early 1400s, the equipment and chemicals necessary for painting were simply too cumbersome to remove them easily from artists' studios. By the late 1700s, some painters did venture outdoors to sketch ...

Introduction start feature | index of feature 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. Attracted to lyrical paintings that were representational but not academic in style, they were among the first collectors to dedicate themselves to American impressionism. This Web feature ...

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Review by John Haber of 'American Impressionism and Realism' at New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

Westmoreland Museum of American Art The Westmoreland's main entrance Greensburg, PA 724-837-1500 http://www.wmuseumaa.org An American Tradition: The Pennsylvania Impressionists In 1915, the artist and critic Guy Pene du Bois characterized Pennsylvania Impressionist painting as America's first truly national expression. An American Tradition: The Pennsylvania Impressionists, an exhibition ...

In the late 1800's, American artists studying at home and abroad began developing a style of Impressionism that was similiar to their French predecessors. Painting mostly en plein air (out of doors) these artists sought to convey the fleeting effects of sunlight and atmosphere, creating a heightened sense of reality in their work. They often painted landscapes and scenes of leisure, but the real ...

Minneapolis Institute of Arts Minneapolis, MN 612-870-3131 http://www.artsMIA.org American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum August 20 - October 29, 2000 Luminous works by Mary Cassatt, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam, Abbott Handerson Thayer, John Henry Twachtman and Thomas Wilmer Dewing are among the 52 paintings featured in American Impressionism: ...