The Journey! Impressionism

Impressionism Centered in France, 1860's to 1880's Impressionism is a light, spontaneous manner of painting which began in France as a reaction against the restrictions and conventions of the dominant Academic art. Its naturalistic and down-to-earth treatment of its subject matter, most commonly landscapes, has its roots in the French Realism of Camille Corot and others. The movement's name was derived from Monet's early work, Impression: Sunrise, which was singled out for criticism by Louis Leroy upon its exhibition. The hallmark of the style is the attempt to capture the subjective impression of light in a scene. The core of the earliest Impressionist group was made up of Claude Monet, Alfred Sisley and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. Others associated with this period were Camille Pissarro, Frederic Bazille, Edgar Degas, Gustave Caillebotte, Edouard Manet, and the American Mary Cassatt. The Impressionist style was probably the single most successful and identifiable "movement" ever, and is still widely practiced today. But as an intellectual school it faded towards the end of the 19th century, branching out into a variety of successive movements which are generally grouped under the term Post-Impressionism.

Chronological Listing of Impressionists

Alphonse Maureau	19th Century	French Painter
Johan Barthold Jongkind	1819-1891	Dutch Painter	Art Prints
Eugene Boudin	1824-1898	French Painter	Art Prints
Camille Pissarro	1830-1903	Caribbean/French Painter	Art Prints
Edouard Manet	1832-1883	French Painter	Art Prints
Martin Rico y Ortega	1833-1908	Spanish Painter
Edgar Degas	1834-1917	French Painter/Sculptor	Art Prints
Stanislas Lepine	1836-1892	French Painter	Art Prints
Alfred Sisley	1839-1899	French Painter	Art Prints
Marie Bracquemond	1840-1916	French Painter	Art Prints
Claude Monet	1840-1926	French Painter	Art Prints
Frederic Bazille	1841-1870	French Painter	Art Prints
John J. Enneking	1841-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Armand Guillaumin	1841-1927	French Painter	Art Prints
Berthe Morisot	1841-1895	French Painter	Art Prints
Pierre-Auguste Renoir	1841-1919	French Painter	Art Prints
Arthur Parton	1842-1914	American Painter	Art Prints
Emil Jakob Schindler	1842-1892	Austrian Painter	Art Prints
Mary Cassatt	1844-1926	American Painter	Art Prints
Harriet Backer	1845-1932	Norwegian Painter
Luis Jimenez Aranda	1845-1928	Spanish Painter	Art Prints
Max Liebermann	1847-1935	German Painter	Art Prints
Theodore Clement Steele	1847-1926	American Painter
Frits Thaulow	1847-1906	Norwegian Painter	Art Prints
Gustave Caillebotte	1848-1894	French Painter	Art Prints
Lilla Cabot Perry	1848-1933	American Painter	Art Prints
Michael Ancher	1849-1927	Danish Painter	Art Prints
Jean Beraud	1849-1935	Russian/French Painter	Art Prints
William Merritt Chase	1849-1916	American Painter	Art Prints
Eva Gonzales	1849-1883	French Painter	Art Prints
Albert Lebourg	1849-1928	French Painter	Art Prints
John Ottis Adams	1851-1927	American Painter
Richard B. Gruelle	1851-1914	American Painter
Jean-Louis Forain	1852-1931	French Painter/Illustrator	Art Prints
Theodore Robinson	1852-1896	American Painter	Art Prints
Julian Alden Weir	1852-1919	American Painter	Art Prints
John Henry Twachtman	1853-1902	American Painter	Art Prints
Colin Campbell Cooper	1856-1937	American Painter	Art Prints
Henri Moret	1856-1913	French Painter	Art Prints
Edward Henry Potthast	1857-1927	American Painter	Art Prints
Willard Leroy Metcalf	1858-1925	American Painter	Art Prints
Maurice Prendergast	1858-1924	Canadian/American Painter	Art Prints
Medardo Rosso	1858-1928	Italian Sculptor	Art Prints
Helen M. Turner	1858-1958	American Painter
Robert Vonnoh	1858-1933	American Painter	Art Prints
Anna Ancher	1859-1935	Danish Painter
George Elbert Burr	1859-1939	American Painter
George Wharton Edwards	1859-1950	American Painter/Illustrator
Abbott Fuller Graves	1859-1936	American Painter	Art Prints
Childe Hassam	1859-1935	American Painter	Art Prints
Otto Stark	1859-1926	American Painter
Theodore Wendel	1859-1932	American Painter	Art Prints
Laura Muntz Lyall	1860-1930	Canadian Painter	Art Prints
Dennis Miller Bunker	1861-1890	American Painter	Art Prints
Theodore Butler	1861-1936	American Painter
Charles Courtney Curran	1861-1942	American Painter	Art Prints
Walter Griffin	1861-1935	American Painter
George Gardner Symons	1861-1930	American Painter	Art Prints
Frank Weston Benson	1862-1951	American Painter	Art Prints
Frantz Charlet	1862-1928	Belgian Painter	Art Prints
Robert Reid	1862-1929	American Painter	Art Prints
Edmund Charles Tarbell	1862-1938	American Painter	Art Prints
Laureano Barrau	1863-1957	Spanish Painter
Maxime Maufra	1863-1918	French Painter	Art Prints
Joaquin Sorolla y Bastida	1863-1923	Spanish Painter	Art Prints
Paul Cornoyer	1864-1923	American Painter	Art Prints
George Loftus Noyes	1864-1951	Canadian/American Painter
Olga Boznanska	1865-1945	Polish Painter
Frank Dumond	1865-1951	American Painter
Philip Leslie Hale	1865-1931	American Painter	Art Prints
William Samuel Horton	1865-1936	American Painter
Valentin Aleksandrovich Serov	1865-1911	Russian Painter	Art Prints
Reynolds Beal	1867-1951	American Painter
William DeLeftwich Dodge	1867-1935	American Painter	Art Prints
Guy Rose	1867-1925	American Painter	Art Prints
Lawton Parker	1868-1954	American Painter
Chauncey F. Ryder	1868-1949	American Painter
Max Slevogt	1868-1932	German Painter	Art Prints
Wilson Irvine	1869-1936	American Painter
Edward Willis Redfield	1869-1965	American Painter	Art Prints
Bessie Potter Vonnoh	1872-1955	American Sculptor
Louis Betts	1873-1961	American Painter
Frank H. Desch	1873-1934	American Painter
Charles Ebert	1873-1959	American Painter
Albert H. Krehbiel	1873-1945	American Painter
Ernest Lawson	1873-1939	Canadian/American Painter	Art Prints
Will Howe Foote	1874-1965	American Painter
Frederick Carl Frieseke	1874-1939	American Painter	Art Prints
Pierre-Eugene Montezin	1874-1946	French Painter
Edward Cucuel	1875-1954	American Painter
Richard Emil Miller	1875-1943	American Painter	Art Prints
Edmund W. Greacen	1876-1949	American Painter
Jane Peterson	1876-1965	American Painter
Gertrude Fiske	1878-1961	American Painter
William Chadwick	1879-1962	American Painter
Helen McNicoll	1879-1915	Canadian Painter
Catherine Wiley	1879-1958	American Painter
Daniel Garber	1880-1958	American Painter	Art Prints
Martha Walter	1880-1976	American Painter	Art Prints
Julian Onderdonk	1882-1922	American Painter	Art Prints
Guy Wiggins	1883-1962	American Painter
Walter Emerson Baum	1884-1956	American Painter
Henrietta Mabel May	1884-1971	Canadian Painter
Fern Isabel Coppedge	1888-1951	American Painter
Louis Ritman	1889-1963	Russian/American Painter
Arthur Hill Gilbert	1894-1970	American Painter
Richard Earl Thompson	1914-1991	American Painter	Resource:http://www.artcyclopedia.com/