This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism’s birth in 1874, when 31 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Claude Monet, and Berthe Morisot, staged an exhibition that shocked Paris. Monet’s ...

On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

On April 15, 1874 – 150 years ago – the first Impressionist exhibition opened on Rue du Capucines in Paris, featuring works by 30 artists, including Paul Cézanne, Edgar Degas, Claude Monet, Camille ...

In the summer of 1889, a 29-year-old American artist with an unusual name, Childe Hassam, rented a studio in Paris’ Montmartre district. Littering the space were unsold canvases abandoned by the ...

The past is beautiful, and the future is splendid. Even sad memories often fade into beautiful afterimages over time. That is ...

Photograph of Paul Durand-Ruel in his gallery (photo taken by Dornac, c. 1910) (all images courtesy the National Gallery, London) LONDON — Impressionism is easily one of, if not the most, accessible ...

Claude Monet influenced more than just other painters. Composers began to incorporate impressionism into their music.The romantic era of Brahms went out the door. And in came French composer Claude ...

Much more than other Impressionists, Camille Pissarro (1830-1903) has a divided reputation. His fans stress his position as the oldest among them, a networker who brought many of them together and ...

It’s hard to believe that Monet, Degas and Renoir once faced hostility from the art world. Alastair Sooke reveals how one man changed everything. Few movements in the history of art feel as familiar ...

Follow the feet as you make your way through the M.H. de Young Museum's grand exhibition, "Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée d'Orsay," which opens Saturday. Not fellow visitors' feet ...