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 ...

They originated those starving artist shows 150 years ago. The critics hated their paintings, and for years nobody bought them. But today, those same canvases fetch multimillions, and Auguste Renoir, ...

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 ...

Does the world need another show of Impressionist or Postimpressionist paintings? A pretty good case can be made that the answer is no. But “Impressionists on the Water,” at the Legion of Honor Museum ...

As grist for ticketed museum exhibitions, Impressionist painting remains as bankable as ever. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco can open "Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

Impressionism is probably the most recognized artwork around the world. It's hard to think of another type of art that is so collectively popular, so beloved, so familiar. If I say the word ...

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?

Revolution was in the plein air. During the reign of Napoleon III, the Second French Empire had colonized extensively abroad and modernized at home, with the construction of Paris’ boulevards and the ...