Frédéric Bazille: The Impressionist Who Never Saw the Movement Named
A wealthy young painter from Montpellier helped fund his friends' careers and shape Impressionism's early years, then died at twenty-eight before the movement had a...
Frédéric Bazille: The Impressionist Who Never Saw the Movement Named
Gustave Caillebotte: The Impressionist Who Built the Museum He Painted For
Édouard Manet: The Reluctant Revolutionary of Modern Paris
Mary Cassatt: An American Eye Among the Impressionists
Berthe Morisot: Painting from the Inside of a Room
Alfred Sisley: The Quiet Persistence of Light on Water
Overshadowed by Monet in his own lifetime, Alfred Sisley built a quiet, consistent body of river and village landscapes that has outlasted…
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Gustave Caillebotte: The Impressionist Who Built the Museum He Painted For
A wealthy engineer turned painter, Caillebotte captured Haussmann's Paris with photographic precision and quietly financed the Impressionist movement that nearly forgot him.
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Édouard Manet: The Reluctant Revolutionary of Modern Paris
Born into Parisian privilege in 1832, Édouard Manet spent two decades unsettling the Salon before quietly becoming the figure younger painters called their guide.
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Mary Cassatt: An American Eye Among the Impressionists
From a Pennsylvania childhood to the heart of the Paris avant-garde, Mary Cassatt built a career on domestic intimacy rendered with startling formal daring.
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Berthe Morisot: Painting from the Inside of a Room
Barred from the cafés and boulevards her male colleagues painted freely, Berthe Morisot turned the domestic interior into some of Impressionism's most searching work.
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Alfred Sisley: The Quiet Persistence of Light on Water
Overshadowed by Monet in his own lifetime, Alfred Sisley built a quiet, consistent body of river and village landscapes that has outlasted the neglect he...
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Camille Pissarro: The Patriarch of Impressionism
The only painter to exhibit in all eight Impressionist shows, Camille Pissarro spent a lifetime reinventing himself, from Pontoise fields to Parisian boulevards seen from...
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Juan Gris: The Architecture of Cubism
The Spanish painter who gave Cubism its clearest logic, turning fractured guitars and newspapers into compositions of startling order and color.
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Max Ernst: The Engineer of Accident
In a Pornic hotel room in 1925, Max Ernst stared at a worn wooden floor and found a method that would define Surrealist picture-making.
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Jean-François Millet: Dignity in the Furrow
Born to a Normandy farming family in 1814, Jean-François Millet spent his career giving sowers, gleaners, and shepherds the gravity once reserved for history painting.
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Gustave Courbet: The Painter Who Put Ordinary Life on a Monumental Scale
A stonemason's son from the Jura hills, Courbet insisted that painting show only what the eye could see, and in doing so upended the hierarchies...
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Édouard Manet: Painting Modern Life in the Twilight of the Salon
In 1863 a rejected Salon painting turned Édouard Manet into the most argued-over artist in Paris, and set him on the path between Realism and...
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Willem de Kooning: The Body as Battleground
In 1953, de Kooning shocked the New York School by painting a woman. Six decades of commercial training, immigrant hustle, and restless figuration followed.
