See the Work
Where to experience American Impressionism's photographs in person, and resources to learn more
The Boating Party, 1893
Permanent Collections
Institutions holding American Impressionism's original prints and negatives, plus the public-domain archive these images are drawn from.
Library of Congress
Washington, D.C.
The Prints & Photographs Division holds the FSA/OWI collection — thousands of American Impressionism's Depression-era photographs. All are in the public domain and available online.
Browse OnlineNational Gallery of Art
Washington, D.C.
Holds Cassatt's Boating Party, Little Girl in a Blue Armchair and The Loge, the complete set of her 1890-91 color prints, Hassam's Allies Day, May 1917 and many of his etchings, and Metcalf's May Night; the main CC0 source for this archive.
Learn MoreThe Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York City
Holds Chase's Carmencita, Weir's The Red Bridge and Idle Hours, Robinson's Giverny-period and American paintings, and Twachtman's waterfall pictures; a CC0 source for this archive (its Cassatt images are not released as open access).
Learn MoreCleveland Museum of Art
Cleveland, Ohio
Holds Cassatt's In the Omnibus and After-Dinner Coffee, Twachtman's early etchings and Deserted Wharf (The Old Mill at Cos Cob), and paintings by Chase and Weir; a CC0 source for this archive.
Learn MoreFlorence Griswold Museum
Old Lyme, Connecticut
The former boarding house at the heart of the Old Lyme art colony, now a museum of American Impressionism.
Learn MoreWeir Farm National Historical Park
Ridgefield and Wilton, Connecticut
J. Alden Weir's Branchville farm, house and studio, preserved by the National Park Service.
Learn MoreMajor Exhibitions
Notable retrospectives and exhibitions of American Impressionism's work.
Fourth Impressionist Exhibition
Paris
Cassatt's debut with the Impressionists at Degas's invitation; she showed eleven works and exhibited again with the group in 1880, 1881 and 1886.
Works in Oil and Pastel by the Impressionists of Paris
American Art Association, New York
Paul Durand-Ruel's April 1886 exhibition of about three hundred Impressionist works, the first major showing of French Impressionism in New York; Cassatt lent two paintings.
Mary Cassatt
Galerie Durand-Ruel, Paris
Cassatt's first solo exhibition, at which she showed her set of ten color drypoints and aquatints.
Ten American Painters: First Exhibition
Durand-Ruel Galleries, New York
The Ten's first show (March 31 - April 16, 1898), with the gallery divided into ten spaces, one for each painter.
International Exhibition of Modern Art (the Armory Show)
69th Regiment Armory, New York
Hassam showed six paintings at the exhibition that introduced European modernism to the American public and made Impressionism look conservative.
American Impressionism and Realism: The Painting of Modern Life, 1885-1915
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Major reassessment of the American Impressionists alongside their realist contemporaries.
Childe Hassam, American Impressionist
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Retrospective of Hassam's paintings, watercolors and prints, including the flag series.
Degas/Cassatt
National Gallery of Art, Washington
Exhibition on the friendship and artistic exchange between Cassatt and Degas.
Books & Films About American Impressionism
Essential resources for understanding American Impressionism's life and work.
Essential Reading
The standard survey of the movement, from the first Americans in Paris and Giverny to the regional schools and art colonies.
A history of the Ten from their 1897 secession through two decades of joint exhibitions.
The history of the Greenwich colony that grew up around Twachtman and the Holley House.
Films & Other Resources
The Metropolitan Museum of Art's catalogue setting Chase, Hassam, Twachtman, Weir and Cassatt beside the realists, organized by theme - city, suburb, country, home.
The standard modern biography of Cassatt, drawing on her letters.
The catalogue of Cassatt's prints (revised 1979), whose numbering is still used for her drypoints and color prints.
Catalogue of the Metropolitan Museum's Hassam retrospective, covering his Boston and Paris years, the colonies, the flag series and the late prints.
National Gallery of Art catalogue on the artistic exchange between Cassatt and Degas, including the technical study of Little Girl in a Blue Armchair.
Online Resources
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Browse 272 American Impressionism works from the National Gallery of Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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