The story of Impressionism’s birth has been told so often, it’s more myth than historic event. Generally, the tale goes something like this: in 1874, a ragtag gang of disaffected artists reject the ...

The stylistically mercurial artist’s status within Impressionism has long been subject to debate, but an exhibition at the Denver Art Museum positions him at its forefront.

This moment is a powerful illustration of what Monet meant to those who knew him well and the nature of his work. John Zaller ...

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 ...

The exhibition makes the case that this relatively mellow artist should stand shoulder to shoulder with his crazier peers.

The retrospective brings together the largest and most exhaustive survey of Pissarro’s work ever seen on this side of the ...

Their paintings might look like greeting cards from a nursing home, but the Impressionists were 19th century punk rockers.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...