The word Impressionism has long been associated with images of leisure. The French Impressionists announced their modernity by portraying fashionably-dressed people dining in the open air, strolling along garden paths, or enjoying an evening at the theatre. Although the American Impressionists also portrayed women in white dresses twirling parasols, they devoted almost equal attention to workers: farmers, washerwomen, flower vendors, shipbuilders, bargemen, hackney drivers, and construction workers. Their landscapes depict not only city parks and seaside resorts but also worksites - shipyards and quarries, farms and factories. Free of the baggage of the European class system, the American Impressionists expressed the deeply rooted American belief in the nobility of honest toil. They did not depict labourers as oppressed drudges, as many European painters had done. Instead, the workers in American Impressionist paintings are always dignified and sometimes heroic. This publication accompanied an exhibition presenting 46 paintings by 20 artists.

American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work

Arts & Photography

Larkin, Susan G.

History & Criticism

Frances Lincoln

Top Cats: The Life and Times of The New York Public Library Lions surveys the history of the Lions and the extraordinary affection with which the public has responded to them. With a generous selection of photographs, cartoons, prints, original drawings, and memorabilia and engaging text and sidebars, the book explores the controversy surrounding the Lions' creation, their ongoing popularity, and much more.

Top Cats: The Life And Times of the New York Public Library Lions

Sculpture

Pomegranate

Book by Cummings, Hildegard, Fusscas, Helen K., Larkin, Susan G.

J. Alden Weir: A Place of His Own

Cummings, Hildegard

Fusscas, Helen K.

Collections, Catalogs & Exhibitions

Univ Connecticut

This is the first book to consider the life and work of the American artist Matilda Browne (1869-1947). Browne specialized in paintings of animals, gardens, and floral still lifes, winning professional approbation in an era when women artists faced limited prospects. Browne was a member of the Lyme Art Colony in Connecticut, as well as one of the founders of the Greenwich Society of Artists. Catalogue accompanies the exhibition "Matilda Browne: Idylls of Farm and Garden" at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut, February 10-May 28, 2017

Matilda Browne : Idylls of Farm and Garden

Florence Griswold Museum

American Impressionists Abroad and at Home: Paintings from the Collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art

San Diego Museum of Art

American Federation of Arts

Weinberg, H. Barbara

Metropolitan Museum Of Art (new York, N.y.)

Amer Federation of Arts

What Argenteuil in the 1870s was to French Impressionists, Cos Cob between 1890 and 1920 was to American Impressionists Childe Hassam, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman, J. Alden Weir, and their followers. These artists and writers came together to work in the modest Cos Cob section of Greenwich, Connecticut, testing new styles and new themes in the stimulating company of colleagues. This beautiful book is the first to examine the art colony at Cos Cob and the role it played in the development of American Impressionist art. During the art-colony period, says Susan Larkin, Greenwich was changing from a farming and fishing community to a prosperous suburb of New York. The artists who gathered in Cos Cob produced work that reflects the resulting tensions between tradition and modernity, nature and technology, and country and city. Their preferred subjects, which include colonial architecture, quiet landscapes, contemplative women, held a complex significance, which Larkin explores. Drawing on maritime history, garden design, women's studies, and more, she places the art colony in its cultural and historical context and reveals unexpected depth in paintings of enormous popular appeal. This generously illustrated book accompanies an exhibition that opens at the National Academy of Design in New York on 14 February 2001 and then travels to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, on 17 June and the Denver Art Museum on 27 October.

The Cos Cob Art Colony: The Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore

Yale University Press

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