WILLIAMSTOWN — Michelle Foa wants to set the record straight about Edgar Degas. She wants the world to understand that he painted so much more than dancers and laundresses and did so in a variety of ...

Worcester Art Museum’s collection of Impressionist art is, well … impressive. The European and American Impressionism collections at WAM have long delighted visitors to its galleries, the legacy of ...

It's difficult to underestimate the influence Childe Hassam had in bringing French Impressionism techniques to the United ...

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library welcomes back art historian Linda Blair with a new lecture series, Impressionism. For many years now, Blair has been one of the Athenaeum’s most popular speakers.

The 15 April 1874 has a good claim to be the founding moment of modern art. A group of 31 artists, who'd often been rejected by the official Paris Salon, had decided to stage their own show at 35 ...

Visitors to The Society of the Four Arts can now view an exhibit of 125 works from 90 famous and lesser-known American Impressionist artists and learn more about the style first developed in France by ...

In creating the masterpieces that are among the favorites of art fans of all ages, the late 19th-century French impressionists started with a different way of seeing their subject matter. That new ...

Last year marked the 150th anniversary of one of the most popular art movements of our day. Impressionist exhibitions are reliable blockbusters for museums, and the classic tale of art that was mocked ...

WASHINGTON -- Researchers have developed a new strategy that uses optical coherence tomography (OCT) to acquire both the surface and underlying details of impressionist style oil paintings. This ...

Our beloved Monets are currently having an extended family reunion at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art. One of the prized possessions in the vast SBMA permanent collection is Claude Monet’s “Villas in ...

This fall, the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. is bedecked with pastels, broad brushstrokes and light –– the French Impressionists have arrived. While the muggy autumn weather outside is ...