Impressionism, a style of painting characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors, was practiced widely among American artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. ...

Impressionism emerged as an artistic style in France in the 1860s. Major exhibitions of French impressionist works in Boston and New York in the 1880s introduced the style to the American public. Some of the first American artists to paint in an impressionistic mode, such as Theodore Robinson, did so in the late 1880s after visiting France and meeting with artists such as Claude Monet. Others, such as Childe Hassam, took notice of the increasing numbers of French impressionist works at American exhibitions. Theodore Robinson (July 3, 1852 – April 2, 1896) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926)[1] was a founder of French Impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movements philosophy of expressing ones perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein... Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter. ...

From the 1890s through the 1910s, American impressionism flourished in art colonies—loosely affiliated groups of artists who lived and worked together and shared a common aesthetic vision. Art colonies tended to form in small towns that provided affordable living, abundant scenery for painting, and relatively easy access to large cities where artists could sell their work. Some of the most important American impressionist artists gathered at Cos Cob and Old Lyme, Connecticut, both on Long Island Sound; New Hope, Pennsylvania, on the Delaware River; and Brown County, Indiana. American impressionist artists also thrived in California at Carmel and Laguna Beach; in New York on eastern Long Island at Shinnecock, largely due to the influence of William Merritt Chase; and in Boston where Edmund Charles Tarbell and Frank Weston Benson became important practitioners of the impressionist style. An art colony is a place where artists live and work, interacting with one another, often creating a distinctive style. ... The Cos Cob Art Colony was a group of artists, many of them American Impressionists, who gathered in and around Cos Cob, a section of Greenwich, Connecticut, from about 1890 to about 1920. ... Old Lyme is a town located in New London County, Connecticut. ... New York City waterways: 1. ... New Hope, formerly Coryells Ferry, is a borough in Bucks County, Pennsylvania, USA. The population was 2,252 at the 2000 census. ... Brown County is a county located in the state of Indiana. ... View towards the city beach, Carmel; an old Monterey Cypress in the foreground Carmel-by-the-Sea, sometimes abbreviated as Carmel, is a small town endowed with a rich artistic history situated on the Monterey Peninsula in Monterey County, California. ... Location of Laguna Beach within Orange County, California. ... Map showing Long Island; to the north is Connecticut and to the west are New York City and New Jersey. ... William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. ... Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 - August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Red and Gold, 1915, by Frank W. Benson Frank Weston Benson (March 24, 1862 - November 15, 1951) was an American Impressionist artist. ...

Some American art colonies remained vibrant centers of impressionist art into the 1920s. However, impressionism in America lost its cutting-edge status in 1913 when a historical exhibition of modern art took place at the 69th Regiment Armory building in New York City. The “Armory Show”, as it came to be called, heralded a new painting style regarded as more in touch with the increasingly fast-paced and chaotic world, especially with the outbreak of World War I. The Great Depression and World War II. Armory Show poster. ... Combatants Allied Powers: Russian Empire France British Empire Italy United States Central Powers: Austria-Hungary German Empire Ottoman Empire Bulgaria Commanders Nicholas II Aleksei Brusilov Georges Clemenceau Joseph Joffre Ferdinand Foch Herbert Henry Asquith Douglas Haig John Jellicoe Victor Emmanuel III Luigi Cadorna Armando Diaz Woodrow Wilson John Pershing Franz... The Great Depression was a worldwide economic downturn which started in October of 1929 and lasted through most of the 1930s. ... Combatants Allied Powers Axis Powers Casualties Military dead: 17,000,000 Civilian dead: 33,000,000 Total dead: 50,000,000 Military dead: 8,000,000 Civilian dead: 4,000,000 Total dead 12,000,000 World War II (abbreviated WWII), or the Second World War, was a worldwide conflict...

The Rebirth of Impressionism in America: The 1950’s and Beyond

In the 1950’s, a quarter of a century after the death of Monet, major museums in America started having exhibitions of the original French Impressionists paintings, and in so doing Impressionism was reborn. The resurgence of interest in Impressionism continues to this day with many accomplished American painters, such as Richard Earl Thompson, John C. Terelak, and Lindsay Dawson, producing powerful, pleasing and individualistic Impressionistic paintings.

Notable North American Impressionists include: World map showing North America A satellite composite image of North America. ... Impressionism was a 19th century art movement that began as a loose association of Paris-based artists, who began exhibiting their art publicly in the 1860s. ...

• Lucy Bacon
• John Noble Barlow
• Frank Weston Benson
• Mary Cassatt
• William Merritt Chase
• Alson S. Clark
• Joseph DeCamp
• Thomas Dewing
• Paul-Henri DuBerger (Canadian)
• Frederick Carl Frieseke
• Daniel Garber
• Edmund Greacen
• Childe Hassam
• Wilson Irvine
• William Langson Lathrop
• Laura Muntz Lyall (Canadian)
• Willard Metcalf
• Leonard Ochtman
• William McGregor Paxton
• Lilla Cabot Perry
• Edward Willis Redfield
• Robert Reid
• Theodore Robinson
• Edward Simmons
• Sueo Serisawa (California Impressionist)
• T. C. Steele
• Edmund Charles Tarbell
• John Henry Twachtman
• Marion Wachtel
• J. Alden Weir
• Patrick Antonelle

Lucy Angeline Bacon (1857 – 1932) was a Californian artist who studied in Paris under the famous Impressionist, Camille Pissarro (who was friends with Paul Cézanne), and was the only known California artist to have studied under any of the Great French Impressionists. ... John Noble Barlow (1861-1917) was a prominent British and American landscape painter. ... Red and Gold, 1915, by Frank W. Benson Frank Weston Benson (March 24, 1862 - November 15, 1951) was an American Impressionist artist. ... Self-portrait (1878) by painter Mary Cassatt Mary Stevenson Cassatt (May 22, 1844 – June 14, 1926) was an American painter and printmaker. ... William Merritt Chase (November 1, 1849 - October 25, 1916) was an American painter known as an exponent of Impressionism and as a teacher. ... Alson S. Clark (1876 – 1949) was an American painter best remembered for his impressionist landscapes. ... Joseph Rodefer DeCamp (November 5, 1858 - February 11, 1923) was an American painter. ... Summer (1890), Smithsonian American Art Museum Thomas Wilmer Dewing (May 4, 1851 – November 5, 1938) was an American painter working at the turn of the 20th century. ... Paul-Henri DuBerger Paul-Henri DuBerger Paul-Henri DuBerger Paul-Henri DuBerger is a contemporary Canadian impressionist painter. ... Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874 - 1939) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Daniel Garber (1880-1958) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. ... Edmund Greacen (1877 – 1949) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Frederick Childe Hassam (October 17, 1859 - August 27, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Wilson Henry Irvine (1869-1936) was a master American Impressionist landscape painter. ... William Langson Lathrop (1859-1938) was an American landscape painter and founder of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. ... Laura Muntz Lyall, born June 18, 1860 - died December 9, 1930, was a Canadian Impressionist painter. ... Willard Leroy Metcalf (July 1, 1858 – March 9, 1925) was an American artist. ... Leonard Ochtman (October 21, 1854 – 1935), American painter, was born in Zonnemaire, Netherlands. ... William McGregor Paxton (1869-1941) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Self-Portrait (1892) Lilla Cabot Perry, (January 13, 1848 – February 28, 1933), was one of the first American artists to embrace impressionism during the late 19th century. ... Edward Willis Redfield (1869-1965) was an American landscape painter and member of the art colony at New Hope, Pennsylvania. ... Robert Lewis Reid (July 29, 1862 – December 2, 1929) was an American impressionist painter and muralist. ... Theodore Robinson (July 3, 1852 – April 2, 1896) was an American Impressionist painter. ... Edward Emerson Simmons (October 27, 1852 – November 17, 1931) was an American impressionist painter, remembered for his mural work. ... SUEO SERISAWA (April 10, 1910-September 7, 2004) was a Japanese-American who became an important modernist of the Los Angeles school. ... Theodore Clement Steele (1847-1926) was an American Impressionist painter known for his Indiana landscapes. ... Edmund Charles Tarbell (April 26, 1862 - August 1, 1938) was an American Impressionist painter. ... John Henry Twachtman (August 4, 1853-August 8, 1902) was a US impressionist painter. ... Marion Kavanaugh Wachtel (1875 – 1954), a plein air painter in watercolors and oils, lived and worked with her artist husband Elmer Wachtel in the Arroyo Seco near Pasadena, California, in the early 20th Century. ... The Red Bridge, ca. ... Patrick Antonelle (1950 -) American impressionist/pointillist painter. ...

American Impressionism references

• Gerdts, William H. (2001). American Impressionism, Second Edition, New York: Abbeville Press Publishers. ISBN 0-7892-0737-0. 

• Moure,Nancy (1998). California Art: 450 Years of Painting and Other Media. Los Angeles: Dustin Publications. ISBN 0-9614622-4-8. 

• Gerdts, William H. and South, Will (1998). California Impressionism. New York: Abbeville Press. ISBN 0-7892-0176-3. 

• Landauer, Susan (Editor) (1996). California Impressionists. Athens, Ga.: The Irvine Museum and Georgia Museum of Art. ISBN 0-915977-25-7. 

• Weinberg, Barbara H. (2004). Childe Hassam: American Impressionist. New York: The Metropolitan Museum of Art. ISBN 1-58839-119-1. 

• Larkin, Susan G. (2001). The Cos Cob Art Colony. New York: the National Academy of Design. ISBN 0-300-08852-3. 

• Westphal, Ruth Lilly (Editor) (1986). Plein Air Painters of California: The North. Irvine, Calif.: Westphal Publishing. ISBN 0-9610520-1-5. 

• Westphal, Ruth Lilly (Editor) (1982). Plein Air Painters of California: The Southland. Irvine, Calif.: Westphal Publishing. ISBN 0-9610520-0-7. 

• Peterson, Brian H. (Editor) (2002). Pennsylvania Impressionism. Philadelphia: James A. Michener Art Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3700-5.