Examples of artworks by American Impressionist painters Mary
Cassatt (1845-1926), Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852-1919),
John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902), Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935),
Frank Benson (American, 1862-1951), Albert Henry Krehbiel (American,
1873-1945), Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874-1939), and others (several
of whom were members of a group known as the Ten
American Painters):
Mary Cassatt (American, 1844-1926, active
in France), Portrait of a Woman, 1872, oil
on canvas, 23 1/4 x 19
3/4 inches, Dayton Art Institute, OH.
Mary Cassatt, Portrait
of the Artist, 1878, gouache
on wove laid
paper down to buff-colored wood pulp paper, 23 5/8 x 16 3/16
inches (60.1 x 41.2 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See
feminism and feminist art.
Mary Cassatt, The Cup of Tea, c. 1879, oil
on canvas, 36 3/8 x 25
3/4 inches (92.4 x 65.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Mary Cassatt, Mother About to Wash Her Sleepy Child,
1880, oil on canvas,
39 3/8 x 25 7/8 inches (100 x 65.7 cm), Los Angeles County Museum
of Art.
Mary Cassatt, Helene is Restless, c. 1890, oil on canvas, 25 7/8 x 21 1/2 inches, Portland Art Museum, ME.
Mary Cassatt, The Letter, 1890-91, drypoint and aquatint on cream laid
paper, Worcester Art Museum, MA.
Mary Cassatt, Agatha and Her Child, 1891, pastel on paper, 26 x 21 inches (66.04 x 53.34 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH. Also see the WebMuseum.
Mary Cassatt, Reine Lefebvre Holding a Nude Baby, 1902,
oil on canvas,
Worcester Art Museum, MA.
William Merritt Chase (American, 1849-1916),
At the Seaside, c. 1892, oil
on canvas, 20 x 34 inches
(50.8 x 86.4 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY. See Ten
American Painters.
William Merritt Chase, Near the Beach, Shinnecock, Long Island, c. 1895, oil on wood panel, 9 7/8 x 13 7/8 inches, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA.
Julian Alden Weir (American, 1852-1919), Landscape, 1894, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of Art, CT.
John H. Twachtman (American, 1853-1902),
The White Bridge, about 1895, oil
on canvas, Minneapolis
Institute of Arts. See Ten American
Painters.
John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925),
Claude Monet Painting by the Edge of a Wood,
c. 1885, oil on canvas,
54.0 x 64.8 cm, Tate Gallery, London. Although not usually considered
an Impressionist, Sargent was enthusiastic about painting en plein air, as he
did this portrait of his friend, Impressionist painter Claude
Monet.
John Singer Sargent, Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose, 1885-6,
oil on canvas,
174.0 x 153.7 cm, Tate Gallery, London. Sargent painted this
picture out of doors during a very brief period each evening
when the light was at the same
level, just after sunset (a time and kind of light called crepuscular) -- a procedure
explored by Impressionist painters, and by Claude Monet quite
notably.
John Singer Sargent, The Black Brook, c. 1908, oil
on canvas, 55.2 x 69.8
cm, Tate Gallery, London.
F. Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935), Le Jour de Grand Prix, 1888, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of Art, CT. See Ten American Painters.
F. Childe Hassam, Celia Thaxter's Garden, Isles of Shoals, Maine,
1890, oil on canvas,
17 3/4 x 21 1/2 inches (45.1 x 54.6 cm), Metropolitan Museum
of Art, NY.
F. Childe Hassam, Nocturne, Railway Crossing, Chicago,
1893, watercolor
on paper, 16 x 11 3/4 inches (40.6
x 29.8 cm), Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Hassam layered subtly
varied blue washes to evoke pavement,
skyscrapers, streetcars, and horse-drawn carriages and added
highlights to capture
glowing lights and their reflections
on the wet street. See nocturne.
F. Childe Hassam, Isles of Shoals, 1899, oil
on canvas, Minneapolis
Institute of Arts.
F. Childe Hassam, The Breakfast Room, Winter Morning, 1911,
oil on canvas,
Worcester Art Museum, MA.
F. Childe Hassam, Surf, Isles of Shoals, 1913, oil
on canvas, 28 1/4 x 35
1/4 inches (89.5 x 71. 8 cm), Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.
Hassam painted several pictures of the Isle of Shoals while visiting
his friend Celia Thaxter on Appledore Island, Maine.
F. Childe Hassam,
Point Lobos, Carmel, 1914, oil on canvas, 28 5/16 x 36 3/16 inches (71.91 x 91.92 cm), Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
F. Childe Hassam, Avenue of the Allies: Brazil, Belgium,
1918, oil on canvas,
36 1/4 x 24 1/4 inches (92.1 x 61.6 cm), Los Angeles County Museum
of Art. See flag.
Theodore Wendel (American, 1859-1932).
Arthur Frank Mathews (American, 1860-1945)
Frank Weston Benson (American, 1862-1951),
Portrait of My Daughters, 1907, oil
on canvas, Worcester Art
Museum, MA.
Frank Weston Benson, Red and Gold, 1915, oil on canvas, 51 x 59 inches (78.74 x 99.06 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Akron, OH.
Edmund C. Tarbell (American, 1862-1938),
Three Sisters -- A Study in June Sunlight,
1890, oil on canvas,
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI.
Albert Henry Krehbiel (American, 1873-1945). See a biography and selected works by Krehbiel.
Frederick Carl Frieseke (American, 1874-1939, active in France from 1898), The Bridge, Giverny, 19th century - 20th
century, oil on canvas,
25 5/8 x 32 inches, Minneapolis Institute of Arts.
Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Bird Cage, c. 1910, oil on canvas, New Britain Museum of Art, CT.
Frederick Carl Frieseke, The Garden Parasol, 1910, oil on canvas, 57 x 76 5/8 inches (144.8 x 194.6 cm), North Carolina Art Museum, Raleigh.
Frederick Carl Frieseke, Good Morning (originally known as In the Doorway and The Neighbor), c. 1912 or 1913, oil on canvas, 32 x 26 inches (81.28 x 66.04 cm), Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH.
Frederick Carl Frieseke, Hollyhocks, no date, oil on canvas, 25 1/2 x 32 inches, National Academy of Design, NY.
Edgar Alwin Payne (American, 1882-1947)
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