American Impressionism

Résumé du livre

Lenders to the exhibition -- Foreword -- In context -- An alternate aesthetic of light -- Landscape and light in American painting of the 1880s -- Impressionism in America: its reception and terminology -- The role of Whistler and the impact of pastel -- John Singer Sargent and the beginning of impressionist painting in America -- Mary Cassatt and Cecilia Beaux -- Theodore Robinson -- Childe Hassam -- John Henry Twachtman -- J. Alden Weir -- Other impressionists and "The ten" -- Impressionists of the decorative figure -- Boston and Pennsylvania impressionists -- Regional impressionism -- Impressionism and early 20th-century movements in American art -- Conclusion: Impressionism at the expositions -- Catalogue of the exhibition.