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 2 Collections and/or Records:
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