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| − | William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was an American impressionist painter, a noted exponent of American Impressionism best known for his portraits. He was a prolific painter with more than 2000 works, included still lifes, portraits, and landscapes; he worked in all media. One of the largest collection of his paintings is at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. | + | William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was an American impressionist painter, a noted exponent of American Impressionism best known for his portraits. He was a prolific painter with more than 2000 works, included still lifes, portraits, and landscapes; he worked in all media. One of the largest collection of his paintings is at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Chase became a member of ''The Ten'' American Painters after John Henry Twachtman died in his place; this cemented his role in American art history. |
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American Impressionism (1880 - 1920)
The Impressionist movement in the United States was dominated by the painting of Mary Cassatt (1844-1926), William Merritt Chase (1849-1916), Theodore Robinson (1852-1896), J. Alden Weir (1852-1919), John H. Twachtman (1853-1902), Willard Metcalf (1858-1925), Childe Hassam (1859-1935), Frank Benson (1862–1951) and Robert Henri (1865-1929). [1] American "Impressionists" tended to have more of an academic background than their French counterparts. [2] James Whistler (1834–1903) and John Singer Sargent (1856-1925) also participated in this movement.
In 1897, Twachtman became a founding member of the Ten American Painters (or "The Ten"), a group of artists who seceded from the Society of American Artists and exhibited together for the next twenty years. [3]
Painters
James Whistler
James Abbott McNeill Whistler ( Lowell, Massachusetts 1834 - London 1903) was an American painter and printmaker. He achieved notoriety with Symphony No. 1, The White Girl. In 1865 he painted at Trouville with Gustave Courbet, Charles-François Daubigny, and Claude Monet.
Mary Cassatt
Mary Stevenson Cassatt lived from 1844 to 1926. She was an Impressionistic painter, famous for her beautiful portraits of women and children; works with a particular emphasis on the intimate bonds between mothers and children (she used members of her own family as subjects). Cassatt was one of the few American artists active in the XIX century French avant-garde. She lived much of her adult life in France, where she first befriended Edgar Degas and later exhibited among the Impressionists. Mary Stevenson Cassatt.
William Merritt Chase
William Merritt Chase (1849-1916) was an American impressionist painter, a noted exponent of American Impressionism best known for his portraits. He was a prolific painter with more than 2000 works, included still lifes, portraits, and landscapes; he worked in all media. One of the largest collection of his paintings is at The Brooklyn Museum of Art. Chase became a member of The Ten American Painters after John Henry Twachtman died in his place; this cemented his role in American art history.
Theodore Robinson
Julian Alden Weir
Julian Alden Weir (1852 - 1919) was a leading American tonalist/impressionist painter and member of "The Ten". Julian formally studied art at the National Academy of Design and later matriculated to Les Ecole des Beaux-Arts; he studied under Jean-Leon Gerome. Weir's reputation as a landscape painter and leader of the American Impressionists grew through the 1890s; Weir received multiple awards and acclaims in his last years, among them: honorary degrees from Princeton (1916) and Yale (1917). [4]
John H. Twachtman
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902) was an American Tonalist/Impressionist Painter. He studied under William Merritt Chase, Frank Duveneck, Gustave Boulanger and Jules-Joseph Lefebvre.
From 1883 to 1885 Twachtman studied at the Académie Julian in Paris and spent the summers painting in Normandy and at Arques-la-Bataille, near Dieppe. During this period his brushwork became more subdued and his palette lightened considerably, a change to which his familiarity with the work of James McNeill Whistler may have contributed. [5]
| “ | He was a master of "values" - as much so as Whistler. | ” |
John Singer Sargent
John Singer Sargent (Florence, 1856 - London, 1925) was an American painter, a successful portrait painter. Sargent studied in Italy and Germany, and then in Paris under Emile Auguste Carolus-Duran. He was the most successful portrait painter of his era, as well as a gifted landscape painter and watercolorist. [7]
Sargent spent several summers engaged in Impressionist projects. These were nourished by his contact with Monet, whom he visited several times at Giverny, beginning in early summer 1885, and by the chance to work outdoors during the summers of 1885 and 1886 in the Cotswolds village of Broadway, Worcestershire. [8]
Willard Metcalf
Childe Hassam
Frederick Childe Hassam (Boston, 1859 – East Hampton, Connecticut, 1935) was an American Impressionist painter. In 1886, he went to Paris to study. Hassam was a prolific artist with more than 3,000 works.
Frank Benson
Robert Henri
See also
External links
- American impressionism and Realism.
- American Impressionism.
- John H. Twachtman: An Estimation. T. W. Dewing, Childe Hassam, Robert Reid, Edward Simmons and J. Alden Weir; The North American Review, Vol. 176, No. 557 (Apr., 1903).
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