Monet … Degas … Renoir. When we think of French Impressionism, it's the usual suspects who spring to mind. But one lesser-known artist is ripe for rediscovery ...

As the contemporary French historian Daniel Halévy put it, Degas “became an impoverished painter who had to earn his living and support his brothers who had become poor like himself. His choice of new ...

Near the end of “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape,” three works by Monet, “Water Lilies” (1917-19) and two titled “The Japanese Bridge” (1918-24), display an unusual side of the great ...

“Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment,” a gorgeous show of roughly 130 works at the National Gallery of Art organized by its curators Mary Morton and Kimberly A. Jones, marks the 150th anniversary of ...

New York (CNN) — Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored ...