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, ...

"That painting was the beginning of a collection that eventually grew to over 200 works," Tackett says. The 41 paintings in "American Impressionism" date from 1861 to the late 1930s, a period of ...

What will most likely be the third biggest city in the world 20 years from now? Wrong. Not London, not Los Angeles, not Peking—but Sāo Paulo, topped only by Tokyo and New York. Gaining some 300,000 ...

PORT ANGELES — They were a band of anti-establishment misfits, artists shocking the people with what they were doing outdoors. We know them now as the impressionists — Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, ...

Most people think of impressionism as a purely French artistic movement, said Douglas Britt in the Houston Chronicle. In fact, it had a late if little-known flowering in Germany, where artists such as ...

French Impressionist painting offers a vision of colour and light so vivid and pure we might imagine the artist saw nothing but the elemental beauty of the observable world. In this art, typically, ...

Purchase this and other timeless New Criterion essays in our hard-copy reprint series. The Dutch historian Johan Huizinga, in his classic study The Waning of the Middle Ages, described the transition ...

Finding a specific style of art can be a tedious process if you don't know where to look. Fortunately, if you're looking for Impressionist art in the Philadelphia area, this list has you covered.

Some 150 years ago, Pierre-Auguste Renoir made a name for himself as a founder of the Impressionist art movement. His paintings (like "Bathers" and "Dance at Bougival") still captivate today. Now, his ...