Their villa at Giverny remained a base of operations throughout their lives. As the century waned, Monet grew bolder: He embarked on several series of subjects portrayed at different hours of day, in ...

Political violence tore France apart. A group of painters hoped a radical visual language could patch life back together.

"The Impressionist Moment" celebrates the 150th anniversary of the first exhibition of Impressionist painting.

In an excerpt from his new book “Paris in Ruins,” critic Sebastian Smee breaks down the charged, extravagantly expressive ...

All you ever wanted to know about the subject, from tomes on how society shaped Impressionism to a deep dive into how the ...

A National Gallery of Art curator told JNS that it is “quite striking” that the only painting in the 1874 Impressionism show ...

The Canadian painter William Brymner (1855-1925) arrived in Paris in 1878, four years after the First Impressionist Exhibition. Still, he was more interested in the classical French academic ...

The environment that cultivated the birth of modern painting is one facet of “Paris In Ruins,” the new book from Washington Post art critic Sebastian Smee. As its title suggests, the book ...

Monet's "Impression, Sunrise" anchors an exhibition commemorating the birth of the artistic movement 150 years ago ...

The National Gallery of Art celebrates the 150th anniversary of the exhibition credited with inaugurating French ...

A tour of the National Gallery’s landmark exhibition with our Van Gogh expert Martin Bailey, plus a new book on zoning in on ...

At the twilight of his career, Monet was going blind. Surgery restored his eyesight. But did it give him the uncanny vision ...