They originated those starving artist shows 150 years ago. The critics hated their paintings, and for years nobody bought them. But today, those same canvases fetch multimillions, and Auguste Renoir, ...

Few exhibitions have been more mythologized than the one that opened in a Parisian photography studio on April 15, 1874. There, over the course of a month, the trajectory of art was altered, launching ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, "Oarsmen at Chatou." (From "Impressionists on the Water" at the Peabody Essex Museum) A couple, dressed in what you might call their Sunday-outing best, stand on the grassy bank ...

It is little wonder that an art movement like Impressionism, popular for capturing the elusive immediacy of everyday life, would be drawn to drawing. Works on paper, historically relegated to the ...

Impressionism is probably the most recognized artwork around the world. It's hard to think of another type of art that is so collectively popular, so beloved, so familiar. If I say the word ...

Does the world need another show of Impressionist or Postimpressionist paintings? A pretty good case can be made that the answer is no. But “Impressionists on the Water,” at the Legion of Honor Museum ...

Edgar Degas, "Dancers on a Bench" (c. 1898), pastel on tracing paper; lent by Glasgow Life (Glasgow Museums) on behalf of Glasgow City Council (photo © CSG CIC ...

As grist for ticketed museum exhibitions, Impressionist painting remains as bankable as ever. The Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco can open "Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée ...

WE all talk a great deal about influences, in relation to both the artists who give and those who receive them; tabulating them adds a cozy sense of continuity to the rather chaotic history of art.

Impressionism used to be discussed as a movement that turned its back on high art’s traditional subjects in order to give more attention to other matters. The Impressionists’ themes, landscape, still ...