The theme of work as depicted by American Impressionisms, showing
laborers as dignified and sometimes heroic, expressing the American
belief in the nobility of honest toil.
American originals such as Childe Hassam, Mary Cassatt, William
Merritt Chase, Julian Alden Weir, John Twachtman, and many others
are given a glorious showcase in this full-color collection of the
masterworks of American impressionism. The Golden Age of American
Impressionism presents both the artists and the movement at their
respective peaks, and is released at an opportune time, as the art
world's interest in this singular movement is experiencing a reawakening.
These luminous paintings are accompanied by in-depth examinations
of the artists themselves. The book also discusses the various regional
movements within American impressionism—from the rustic towns
of Old Lyme, New Hope, and Cos Cob to artist colonies across the
Atlantic in Giverny and Grez in France. Written by the leading authority
on the movement, this rich history of a gilded time in American
art also serves as a catalog of an upcoming exhibit at the Hechscher
Museum of American Art in Huntington, Long Island.
Mounted as the first exhibition of California Impressionist paintings,
the Irvine Museum exhibit drew record crowds in Paris and throughout
Europe. This book contains some of the very best work of 58 California
artists, some of whom studied in France including Alson Clark, Alfred
Mitchell, Guy Rose, William Ritschel and many others. 200 pages,
110 color illustrations.
California Impressionism by William H. Gerdts, Will South
– Hardcover, 284 pages, Published by Abbeville Press, Inc.,
1998
Lavishly illustrated, meticulously researched, and gracefully written,
this definitive study of California's distinctive style of impressionism
surveys the movement's sources abroad, its most influential artists,
and the critical responses to the style. 248 illustrations, 201
in color.
This book celebrates forty Impressionist painters who worked in
California from 1900 through the beginning of the Great Depression.
A joint effort of The Irvine Museum and the Georgia Museum of Art,
it includes widely recognized California artists such as Maurice
Braun and Guy Rose, less well known artists such as Mary DeNeale
Morgan and Donna Schuster, and eastern painters who worked briefly
in the region, such as Childe Hassam and William Merritt Chase.
Impressionist New York by William H. Gerdts – Hardcover,
224 pages (March 1997) Abbeville Press, Inc.
The turn of the century in America experienced both the peak of
the aesthetics of impressionism and widespread growth in its greatest
city—New York. Like the French impressionists in Paris, many
American impressionists took to the streets, using the realities
of urban life as the subject of their work. An authority on American
impressionism, Dr. William H. Gerdts provides a thorough chronicle
of this work and the time in which it was painted—one of public
consciousness and celebration.
American Painters in the Age of Impressionism surveys American
art from the 1870s to the 1920s, encompassing both the Philadelphia
Centennial of 1876 and the Armory show of 1913. This catalogue,
published by the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, in conjunction with
the exhibition held at the museum from December, 1994, to March,
1995, features more than seventy color plates.
After the Civil War, American art underwent a radical reorientation.
No longer bent on creating a "national" art that would
define the unique qualities of the American experience, American
artists cast their eyes and minds across the Atlantic, eager to
absorb European currents of artmaking.
The works of such artists as Winslow Homer, George Inness, and Mary
Cassatt are displayed here in a gallery setting intended to evoke
the kaleidoscopic exhibition experience of the late-nineteenth-century
viewer.
These paintings come from the collections of the Museum of Fine
Arts, Houston (particularly the Wintermann Collection of American
Art), the Dallas Museum of Art, the Marion Koogler McNay Art Museum,
and the San Antonio Museum of Art, and from numerous private collections.
Minnesota Impressionists by Rena Neumann Coen, William
H. Gerdts – Hardcover, 96 pages (October 1996) Afton Historical
Society Press
Examines Impressionist pictures in Minnesota from both a local and
national perspective. The period covered is pre-1940. Twenty-seven
Minnesota artists and their paintings are addressed in separate
essays, arranged alphabetically for easy reference.
From the well-known Redfield to the little known Robert Spencer,
"The Pennsylvania Impressionists" contains a wealth of
American Art knowledge. The author Thomas C. Folk should be commended
for writing such a comprehensive piece.
Years in the making, this elegant and far-ranging volume has
helped establish the ever-growing passion for American Impressionism
and remains the most invaluable source of information on the
subject. Called "the best book ever written on the subject"
by Artforum, it includes reproductions of all the masterworks.
400 illustrations, 200 in color.
Canadian Impressionism by Paul Duval – Gift boxed,
Hardcover, Published by McClelland & Stewart, 1990.
Americans were introduced to Impressionism by the French in the
1880s. They explored its expressive potential and debated its merits
in the 1890s, and by the turn of the 20th century, American painters
had seized the style for their own. Included here are thirty superb
examples of American Impressionist painting by the seminal artists
who redefined the movement for American audiences, including Frank
W. Benson, Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, John
Singer Sargent, John Henry Twachtman, and others.
Featuring contributions by some of the clearest voices and leading
authorities on American Impressionism, Masters of Light brings into
the spotlight brilliant and rarely seen paintings while illuminating
their place in the larger currents of American art history. An essay
by Kevin Sharp, "The Americanization of Impressionism,"
examines the unintentional circumstances and deliberate efforts
that transformed Impressionism from an expression of the French
vanguard into an international style, and eventually, into a peculiarly
American enterprise. Long recognized as the premier private holding
of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century American paintings in
the world, the Manoogian Collection runs especially broad and deep
in the area of American Impressionism, and includes many of the
essential works produced by the painters who would become the "Masters
of Light."
Pennsylvania
Impressionism
by Brian H. Peterson, William H. Gerdts – Hardcover: 340 pages
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press (September 1, 2002)
American impressionism was a movement that was largely rooted in
the American soil. Artists often spurned the cities, living and
working in the numerous art colonies that sprang up in rural areas
throughout the country in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. One of the best known of these colonies was born in 1898
on the banks of the Delaware River north of Philadelphia, centered
in the picturesque village of New Hope, Bucks County. Known as the
Pennsylvania impressionists, this group of artists played a dominant
role in the American art world of the teens and twenties. Their
work was celebrated for its freedom from European influence, and
was praised by the noted painter and critic Guy Pene du Bois as
"our first truly national expression."" Pennsylvania
impressionist paintings are now widely collected, and numerous works
in private hands are shown here, as are selections from the holdings
of the James A. Michener Art Museum, which has the most extensive
public collection. The book is lavishly illustrated with 369 color
reproductions, and includes biographies of eighty-four artists,
many never before published. The history of the Bucks County art
colony is explored by Brian H. Peterson, who also suggests new ways
of understanding the art and artists who made their home in the
area. Sylvia Yount eloquently weaves together the historic foundations
of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and its impact on the
Pennsylvania impressionists. Noted art historian William H. Gerdts
provides a comprehensive study of the art colony movement and its
roots, and includes a comprehensive bibliography on that bygone
era.
The best work of American artists influenced by European Impressionism
comes together in these appealing pages. As a generation of painters
studied abroad and absorbed new approaches to light, palette, and
composition, their landscapes, cityscapes, figural paintings, and
still lifes began to exude their own distinct departures from academic
styles. Shown are works by James McNeill Whistler, Childe Hassam,
John Twachtman, Maria Oakey Dewing, William Merritt Chase, Edmund
Tarbell, Frank Benson, Maurice Prendergast, and others. The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
by Susan G. Larkin – Hardcover, 256 pages (March 1, 2001)
From the Van Gogh-like strokes of Childe Hassam to Elmer MacRae's
near-cubist hollyhocks, The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressions on the
Connecticut Shore offers an in-depth look at a lesser-known American
movement.
These painting styles have received oodles of attention from art
historians of late, and one might wonder what more there is to be
said on the subject. Happily, this volume offers novel approaches
and outstandingly handsome illustrations, nearly half in color.
Insightful commentary is arranged thematically and begins with the
American twist given to Impressionism, a style essentially born
and developed in France. Through essays on country, city, and home,
the authors examine how the subject matter reflected the nature
of American life and culture during that era. The catalog is to
accompany a nationwide traveling exhibition. Appendixes include
lists of works contained in and lenders to the exhibition, as well
as biographies of the painters. Highly recommended for general as
well as scholarly readers. —Kathleen Eagen Johnson, Historic
Hudson Valley, Tarrytown, N.Y. Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information,
Inc.
Catalogue of an exhibition at the Coe Kerr Gallery in New York City
held from November 7 to December 7, 1985. Artists exhibited include
George Bellows, Robert Blum, Emil Carlsen, Mary Cassatt, William
Merritt Chase, William Glackens, Childe Hassam, Winslow Homer, John
La Farge, George Luks, E. Murray MacKay, Richard E. Miller, Charles
Prendergast, Maurice Prendergast, John Singer Sargent, Everett Shinn,
Emily Burling Waite and J. Alden Weir. There are 45 color illustrations
on coated stock.
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American Impressionism: The Beauty of Work
The Golden Age of American Impressionism
Masters of Light: Plein-Air Painting in California 1890-1930
California Impressionism
California Impressionists
Impressionist New York
American Painters in the Age of Impressionism
Minnesota Impressionists
The Pennsylvania Impressionists
American Impressionism 
Canadian Impressionism
Pennsylvania
Impressionism
American Impressionism: Treasures from the Smithsonian American
Art Museum
The Cos Cob Art Colony: Impressionists on the Connecticut Shore
Visions of Home: American Impressionist Images of Suburban Leisure
and Country Comfort
American Impressionism: Paintings of Promise
Paperback: 45 pages Publisher: Coe Kerr Gallery; 1ST edition (1985)
