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 ...

The Races at Longchamp, c. 1891; oil on canvas; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul ...

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 ...

THE WORLD was not always an arena of Claude Monet superfans. “Wallpaper in its embryonic state is more finished than that seascape,” sneered Louis Leroy, an art critic, when describing Monet’s ...

reporting from WASHINGTON — In the late 19th century, everyone looked on Gustave Caillebotte as a leading painter of the Impressionists. He took part in five of the eight exhibitions that the ...

It's hard to imagine today, but colour has been the subject of significant controversy for much of the history of Western art. In fact it's only relatively recently that it pushed past the stigma to ...

Stepping into the Enid A. Haupt Conservatory at the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) this spring and summer, visitors may feel as though they’ve fallen into an Impressionist landscape painting. That’s ...

While every Art History 101 student knows that Impressionism challenged the prevailing aesthetic of its day, Professor House seeks to show that this challenge was also at least obliquely political: ...

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 ...