American impressionism : a new vision, 1880-1900 / edited by Katherine M. Bourguignon ; essays by Richard Brettell, Frances Fowle and Katherine M. Bourguignon.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brettell, Richard R., author.

Fowle, Frances, author.

Bourguignon, Katherine M., author, editor.

Contributor:

Musée des impressionnismes (Giverny, France), host institution.

National Galleries of Scotland, host institution.

Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, host institution.

Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Impressionism (Art)--United States--Exhibitions.

Impressionism (Art).

United States.

Painting, American--19th century--Exhibitions.

Painting, American.

Genre:

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

155 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 30 cm

Distribution:

New Haven : Yale University Press, [2014?]

Place of Publication:

Giverny, France : Musée des impressionnismes Giverny, [2014]

Summary:

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 harmonies and compositions developed from contact with French artists such as Claude Monet and Edgar Degas. The book features more than 60 paintings, some well known, others less familiar, produced in Europe and America. By representing American imagery, from the Atlantic coastline to New York's public gardens, through the most current ideas about art-making, the artists showcased here created a unique expression of an evolving national identity.

Contents:

Introduction. Impressionism and nationalism : the American case / Richard Brettell

American artists in Europe : engaging with impressionism / Frances Fowle

Painting impressionism in America / Katherine M. Bourguignon.

Notes:

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

Includes bibliographical references (pages 150-153) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Perkins Architectural Rare Book Fund.

ISBN:

0300206100

9780300206104

9781906270704

1906270708

OCLC:

865574913

Publisher Number:

99962949656