American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-nineteenth century through the beginning of the twentieth. The style is characterized by loose brushwork and vivid colors with a wide array of subject matters but focusing on landscapes and upper-class domestic life.
Frank W. Benson, Eleanor Holding a Shell, North Haven, Maine, 1902, private collection
Theodore Robinson, Low Tide Riverside Yacht Club, (1894), Collection of Margaret and Raymond Horowitz
Mary Cassatt, The Child's Bath (1893)
Childe Hassam, Cliffs and Sea, 1903, private collection
Theodore Robinson was an American painter best known for his Impressionist landscapes. He was one of the first American artists to take up Impressionism in the late 1880s, visiting Giverny and developing a close friendship with Claude Monet. Several of his works are considered masterpieces of American Impressionism.
Theodore Robinson, Self-portrait (c. 1884-1887), collection: Margaret and Raymond Horowitz
Robinson in 1882
La Vachère (c. 1888) Smithsonian American Art Museum
Winter Landscape, 1889