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Impressionist (style)

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Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Refers to the movement in 19th-century Western art that developed in France and rejected traditional academic teaching and attempted to use science regarding the physics of color to achieve exact representations of color, tone, and light. Impressionist art is characterized by the use of small touches of pure color, painting out-of-doors in order to catch the essence of a fleeting time of day, and an objective depiction of contemporary life.

Found in 5 Collections and/or Records:

Edouard Manet as Etcher, June 6-July 5, 1959

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Arranged by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of etchings by nineteenth century French Impressionist artist Edouard Manet, lent by Mr. and Mrs. Bruno Adriani of Carmel, California supplemented with works from the Foundation collection. The exhibition records span one folder of didactic information.

Dates: June 6-July 5, 1959

Etchings and Lithographs by Childe Hassam, August 8-September 6, 1959

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Arranged by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of etchings and lithographs by American artist Childe Hassam, put on in celebration of the 100th birthday of this famous American Impressionist. The exhibition records span five folders.

Dates: August 8-September 6, 1959

German Impressionism, June 8-July 7, 1957

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Arranged by the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition of surveying Impressionism in Germany through prints by German artists, from the Achenbach collection, with loans from the San Francisco Museum of Art and Mills College Art Gallery in Oakland. The exhibition records span five folders plus photographs.

Dates: June 8-July 7, 1957

Prints by Berthe Morisot and Her Contemporaries, August 21-September 27, 1953

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts collection, an exhibition of etchings and lithographs by French Impressionist artist Berthe Morisot and her contemporaries, accompanying a loan exhibition, Berthe Morisot and Her Circle. The exhibition records span two folders plus photographs.

Dates: August 21-September 27, 1953

Turn of the Century: Impressionism to Realism in American Prints, August 7-September 12, 1954

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From the Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, an exhibition surveying the development of printmaking by American artists during the turn from the nineteenth to twentieth centuries, 1860 to 1912. The exhibition records span four folders plus photographs.

Dates: August 7-September 12, 1954