Masterworks of American Impressionism

Résumé du livre

Impressionism--the interpretation of nature through color and light--was the most powerful influence on American painters until after World War II. American Impressionists still rank among the best loved of our native artists. William H. Gerdts, a leading authority on the subject, offers here an overview of the movement, followed by 66 superb full-page colorplates, each accompanied by an informative commentary. He begins with Mary Cassatt, the earliest American artist to associate herself with the French Impressionists, and moves to John Singer Sargent, whose Impressionist period is relatively little known. Discussed next are the artists who worked in Giverny, France, under the influence of Monet--Theodore Robinson, John Leslie Breck, and Dawson Dawson-Watson. Gerdts then considers Childe Hassam, Julian Alden Weir, William Merritt Chase, and John Twachtman, as well as various groups such as the Old Lyme, Connecticut, art colony; the Society of Ozard Painters, and artists working on the West Coast. He concludes with the second generation of Americans in Giverny, Frederick Frieseke and Richard Miller.