Study Day

Session 1  The Establishment of Impressionism

• The forerunners of Impressionism – Corot, plein air painters and the Barbizon School
• Constable and Turner
• Boudin and Jongkind in Le Havre
• The politics of the Salon under Napoleon 111
• Academic painters and the Beaux-Arts tradition
• Manet, The Dejeuner sur l’Herbe and the Salon des Refuses
• Degas
• The influence of Photography
• New chemical pigments and painting techniques
• The Franco-Prussian War
• The first Impressionist exhibition in Nadar’s studio 1874

Session 2  High Impressionism 1874-1914

• Monet’s painting in Paris and along the Seine 1860-1880 – Argenteuil, La Grenouillere, Vernon, Vetheuil
• Renoir and Monet
• Sisley’s snow paintings
• Pissarro and paintings of towns
• Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt
• Gustave Caillebotte
• Late Monet – the series – Grainstacks, Rouen Cathedral, The Thames, Waterlilies, Poplars on the Epte

Session 3  Impressionism Outside France

• Impressionism in Britain – links with France through Sickert and Wilson Steer
• Formation of the New English Art Club 1886
• Newlyn School, Glasgow Boys
• Impressionism in USA – links with France through Sargent and Whistler
• The Ten American Painters – Childe Hassam, J. Alden Weir, John Henry Twachtman, Robert Reid, Willard Metcalf, Frank Benson, Edmund Tarbell, Thomas  Dewing, Joseph DeCamp, and Edward Simmons
• Impressionism in Italy and Scandinavian countries.
• The lasting legacy of Impressionism