American Impressionism
Description
American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-19th century through the beginning of the 20th. The style is characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors with a wide array of subject matters but focusing on landscapes and upper-class domestic life. Read more ↗
Key Artists
Childe Hassam
Leading champion of American Impressionism famous for his brilliant, light-filled urban scenes of Boston and New York, particularly his patriotic Flag series.
Mary Cassatt
Expatriate American master who exhibited with the French Impressionists and played the decisive role in introducing Impressionist aesthetics to American collectors and museums.
Theodore Robinson
One of the earliest American painters to adopt Impressionist brushwork after spending summers in Giverny developing a close personal friendship with Claude Monet.
John Henry Twachtman
Founding member of 'The Ten' who created highly poetic, tonal, and abstract American Impressionist snowscapes on his farm in Greenwich, Connecticut.
William Merritt Chase
Influential painter and legendary art teacher who created dazzling Impressionist depictions of sunlit leisure in Shinnecock Hills, Long Island, and Brooklyn parks.
J. Alden Weir
Co-founder of 'The Ten' who evolved from traditional Academic realism to become one of America's most celebrated Impressionist painters of New England rural bridges and fields.
Famous Artworks
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Fun Facts
In late 1897, ten prominent American Impressionist painters seceded from the Society of American Artists in New York to form 'The Ten American Painters' (colloquially called 'The Ten'), organizing independent, highly curated annual exhibitions to showcase light-filled modern American art.
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When French Impressionist masterpieces were first exhibited in New York in 1886 by Paul Durand-Ruel, American art critics initially recoiled at the radical figure paintings but warmly celebrated the bright, sun-dappled landscapes, paving the way for American artists to embrace plein-air landscape painting.
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