American Impressionism

Hi,

This is my recommendation for this month, a visit to the American Impressionism exhibition at Thyssen gallery in Madrid. Remember you may get a discount if you present your student's card.

The exhibition will include nearly 80 paintings that allow for an analysis of the way in which North American artists discovered Impressionism in the 1880s and 1890s and its subsequent development around 1900.

 

John Sergent, Two women asleep in a punt under the willows

• Virtual Visit

In 1886 and organized by art dealer Durand-Ruel, the first major exhibition of French Impressionist art in the U S opened its doors in New York. While artists such as Mary Cassatt and John Singer Sargent had spent some years living and exhibiting their work in France and enjoyed close relations with painters such as Degas and Monet, it was not until this show that American painters began to make use of the new brushstroke, brilliant colours and themes of modern life characteristic of the French movement, in some cases even visiting Paris to discover it at first hand.