American impressionism : a new vision, 1880-1900

American impressionism A new vision, 1880-1900

Book - 2014

Overview: This lively, beautifully illustrated book focuses on a group of American artists who applied Impressionist ideas and techniques to American subjects, and in so doing, they attracted and cultivated an enthusiastic American audience. These artists, including Mary Cassatt, John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Theodore Robinson, William Merritt Chase, and Childe Hassam, invented a new and highly diverse formulation of the Impressionist movement. Essays by experts in the field of Impressionism discuss the impact of Impressionism on the countryside and city paintings of Robinson and Hassam; and consider significant pictures by Cassatt, Sargent, and Whistler that demonstrate their role in the exploration of brilliant color harmo...nies and compositions developed from contact with French artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas.

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Subjects
Impressionism (Art) > United States > Exhibitions.
Painting, American > 19th century > Exhibitions.
Published
Giverny, France : Musée des impressionnismes Giverny [2014]
New Haven : Yale University Press [2014?]
Language
English
Other Authors
Richard R. Brettell (author), Frances Fowle, Katherine M. Bourguignon
Item Description
Catalog of exhibition shown at: Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, March 28-June 29, 2014; National Galleries of Scotland, July 19-October 19, 2014; and Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, November 4, 2014-February 1, 2015
Physical Description
155 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-153) and index.
ISBN
9780300206104
9781906270704
Contents unavailable.
Review by Library Journal Review

In the 19th century, American artists generally went to Europe to study, so it was only natural that in the 1880s, artists such as John Singer Sargent, James McNeill Whistler, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and others were drawn to the new impressionist style of some of their teachers and fellow painters. This catalog for an exhibition that opened at the Giverny Museum of Impressionisms and is currently at the National Galleries of Scotland in Edinburgh includes reproductions of 60 of the 80 paintings in the show; three essays "Impressionism and Nationalism: the American Case" by Richard Brettell (art and aesthetic studies, Univ. of Texas, Dallas), "American Artists in Europe: Engaging with Impressionism" by Frances Fowle (curator, National Galleries of Scotland), and "Painting Impressionism in America" by Katherine M. Bourguignon (curator, Terra Fdn. for American Art); artist biographies; and a chronology of American impressionism from 1874 to 1900. VERDICT While Donelson F. Hoopes's The American Impressionists (1972) and William H. Gerdts's American Impressionism (2001) remain the standard works on the subject, this carefully researched catalog is as thought provoking as it is beautiful and will appeal to art historians and students as well as lovers of American impressionism.-Marcia G. Welsh, Dartmouth Coll. Lib., Hanover, NH (c) Copyright 2014. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

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