American Impressionism
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American Impressionism was a style of painting related to European Impressionism and practiced by American artists in the United States from the mid-19th century through the beginning of the 20th. The
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
Childe Hassam
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Frederick Childe Hassam was an American Impressionist painter, noted for his urban and coastal scenes. Along with Mary Cassatt and John Henry Twachtman, Hassam was instrumental in promulgating Impress
American Impressionism
…as Theodore Robinson and Mary Cassatt, 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. Impressionism was initially unpopular in the United States…
Childe Hassam
View in Montmartre, Paris, 1889, Princeton University Art Museum
Washington Arch, in Washington Square Park, c. 1893
Rainy Day, Boston (1885), Toledo Museum of Art in Ohio, with "an uncanny resemblance" to Caillebotte's 1877 Paris Street; Rainy Day