Few exhibitions have been more mythologized than the one that opened in a Parisian photography studio on April 15, 1874. There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered, launching ...

It is little wonder that an art movement like Impressionism, popular for capturing the elusive immediacy of everyday life, would be drawn to drawing. Works on paper, historically relegated to the ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou." (From "Impressionists on the Water" at the Peabody Essex Museum) A couple, dressed in what you might call their Sunday-outing best, stand on the grassy bank ...

Impressionism used to be discussed as a movement that turned its back on high art’s traditional subjects in order to give more attention to other matters. The Impressionists’ themes, landscape, still ...

Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC ...

Monet, Cezanne, Degas, Renoir: some of the world’s most popular artists. Their works, and that of their contemporaries, fetch tens of millions of dollars around the globe. But who were they really?

WE all talk a great deal about influences, in relation to both the artists who give and those who receive them; tabulating them adds a cozy sense of continuity to the rather chaotic history of art.

One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled after one from ...

Impressionism, the movement that forever marked the history of art, is now 150 years old, almost to the day. To celebrate the anniversary, the Musee d’Orsay in Paris together with the National Gallery ...

Sterile sketches by Monet, Degas and Renoir make you grateful they mostly stuck to painting – but Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh’s empathy and emotion steal the show Impressionists on Paper is a bitty ...

There seems to be an exhibition of Impressionist art somewhere in Tokyo every year, such is its popularity in Japan. This summer,the National Art Center, Tokyo is presenting “Impressionist and ...

On my way to see "Impressionists on the Water," which opens Saturday at the Legion of Honor, I began to wonder about Impressionism fatigue. Might this be the exhibition that finally demagnetizes the ...