Sunday, June 7, 2020

Painting #133 - Impressionism

American Impressionists in Europe


Mary Cassatt (1844–1926, American in France) 

Self-Portrait
- Mary Cassatt
- gouache & watercolor over graphite
on paper (33 x 25 cm) c.1880
- National Portrait Gallery (Washington)

Mrs Cassatt Reading to her Grandchildren
- Mary Cassatt
- oil on canvas (60 x 90 cm) 1880
- private collection

Girl in the Garden
- Mary Cassatt
- oil on canvas (92 x 65 cm) 1880-82
- Musée d'Orsay (Paris) 


A student of Manet, Mary Cassatt was also a fan of, and inspired by Kitagawa Utamaro /喜多川歌麿:
Beauty at her toilet
Kitagawa Utamaro /喜多川歌麿 (1753–1806, Japanese)
 - pigment on
washi paper/和紙  (37 x 25 cm) c.1790
- Museum of Fine Arts (Boston) 


James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903, American in UK)


Nocturne: Blue and Gold — Old Battersea Bridge
- James McNeill Whistler
- oil on canvas (68 × 51 cm) 1872-75
- Tate Britain (London) 

Symphony in White, No. 1
(aka The White Girl)
- James McNeill Whistler
- oil on canvas (215 × 108 cm) 1861-62
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 



Impressionism in America 


 Breezing Up (A Fair Wind)
Winslow Homer (1836–1910, American)
- oil on canvas (62 × 97 cm) 1873-76
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

The Biglin Brothers Racing
- Thomas Eakins (1844-1916, American)
- oil on canvas (61 x 92 cm) 1872
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 

Eleanora O'Donnell Iselin (Mrs. Adrian Iselin)
John Singer Sargent (1856-1925, American)
- oil on canvas (154 x 93 cm) 1888
- National Gallery of Art (Washington) 


Source: Wikipedia


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