On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

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, ...

Neither endlessly reprinted on mugs and t-shirts nor massively framed in living rooms: these ten Impressionist paintings are a far cry from the world-famous masterpieces you already know about. And ...

Women were the common subject for Impressionist painters like Degas, Renoir and Morisot, but Gustave Caillebotte chiefly painted men. The provocative Getty exhibition analyzes representations of ...

As the contemporary French historian Daniel Halévy put it, Degas “became an impoverished painter who had to earn his living and support his brothers who had become poor like himself. His choice of new ...

Bit by bit, Impressionism has become the art you hate to love. With more than two dozen different exhibitions circulating through American museums in just the last 18 months or so, Impressionist ...