Mary Cassatt (1844–1926) was the most celebrated women artist of her time. A committed member of the Impressionist movement, ...

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from tomes on how society shaped Impressionism to a deep dive into how the ...

"The Impressionist Moment" celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first exhibition of Impressionist painting.

Visitors to the National Gallery of Art’s marquee exhibition, “Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” encounter two very ...

The Impressionist movement, initially dismissed by Austrian critic Hermann Bahr as “a period of ignorance and frenzy”, was ...

Throughout history, art has been a reflection of society, culture, and the human experience. Famous painters, through their ...

First staged at the Musée d’Orsay, the show at Washington DC’s National Gallery of Art seeks to recreate the first ...

Political violence tore France apart. A group of painters hoped a radical visual language could patch life back together.

One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled ...

More than beauty, more than color, the artist reveals the doubts that bind us.

Pierre is so quietly and intently absorbed in his work at the easel that the camera has to go find him.