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Impressionism
A Brief History
French/European
Impressionists
Monet,
Claude
Van Gogh,Vincent
Renoir, Pierre Auguste
Degas, Edgar
Cezanne, Paul
Seurat, Georges
Manet, Eduoard
Toulouse-Lautrec, Henri
Sisley, Alfred
Pissarro, Camille Jacob
Morisot, Berthe
Boudin, Eugene
Caillebotte, Gustave
Sorolla, Joaquin
Fantin-Latour, Henri
Bonnard, Pierre
Gauguin, Paul
Vuillard, Edouard
Martin, Henri
Redon, Odilon
Other Impressionists
American
Impressionists
Thompson,
Richard Earl
Cassatt, Mary
Sargent, John Singer
Whistler, James McNeill
Hassam, Childe
Benson, Frank Weston
Prendergast, Maurice
Twachtman, John Henry
Chase, William Merritt
Tarbell, Edward
Vonnoh, Robert
Reid, Robert
Metcalf, Willard
Beaux, Cecilia
Potthast, Edward
Chadwick, William
Hale, Philip Leslie
Curran, Charles Courtney
Graves, Abbott Fueller
Frieseke, Frederick
Glackens, William
Maley, Alan
Ruby,
Claire
Terelak, John C
Wallis, Kent
Schofield, Michael
Plisson, Henri
Romanello, Diane
Singley, Greg
Title, Christian
Horning, Elizabeth
Hatfield, Don
Aspevig, Clyde
Afsary, Cyrus
Hayslette, Max
Schmid, Richard
Dunlay, Thomas
Ellis, Ray
Gertenbach, Lynn
Zhan, Charles
Duncan, Robert
Hails, Barbara
Wood, Barbara
Behrens, Howard
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Dali,
Salvador
Michelangelo
Da Vinci, Leonardo
Picasso, Pablo
Rockwell, Norman
Matisse, Henri E
Klimt, Gustav
Escher, M.C.
Mucha, Alphonse
Potter, Beatrix
Geddes, Anne
Anderson, Kim
Vettriano, Jack
O'Keeffe, Georgia
Parrish, Maxfield
Homer, Winslow
Hopper, Edward
Wyeth, Andrew
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Mary
Cassatt - Biography
Mary
Cassatt - Woman Impressionist Artist
Mary
Cassatt (1844-1926), Mary Cassatt was an American born painter who lived
and worked in France as an important member of the impressionist group.
Cassatt was born in Allegheny City, Pennsylvania. In 1861 she began
to study painting at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts in Philadelphia,
but proclaimed her independence by leaving in 1866 to paint in France.
By 1872, after studying in the major museums of Europe, her style began
to mature, and she settled in Paris. There her work attracted the attention
of the French painter Edgar Degas, who invited her to exhibit with his
fellow impressionists. One of the works she showed was The Cup of Tea
(1879, Metropolitan Museum, New York City), a portrait of her sister
Lydia in luminescent pinks. Beginning in 1882 Cassatt's style took a
new turn. Influenced, like Degas, by Japanese woodcuts, she began to
emphasize line over mass and experimented with asymmetric composition—as
in The Boating Party (1893, National Gallery, Washington, D.C.)—and
informal, natural gestures and positions. Portrayals of mothers and
children in intimate relationship and domestic settings became her theme.
Her portraits were not commissioned; instead, she used members of her
own family as subjects. France awarded Cassatt the Legion of Honor in
1904; although she had been instrumental in advising the first American
collectors of impressionist works, recognition came
more slowly in the United States. With loss of sight she was no longer
able to paint after 1914.
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