Pennsylvania Impressionism
Pennsylvania Impressionism was an American Impressionist movement of the first half of the 20th century that was centered in and around Bucks County, Pennsylvania, particularly the town of New Hope. The movement is sometimes referred to as the "New Hope School" or the "Pennsylvania School" of landscape painting.
The Tow Path, a 1921 Pennsylvania impressionist painting by William Langson Lathrop now on display at the Phillips Collection in Washington, D.C.
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