One of the most influential painters of the early 20th century, he founded the Ashcan School, and was a major landscape painter of the time.
Impressionism
The American painter of farm animals, particularly oxen, followed in the brushstrokes of Constant Troyon, except that he has now been forgotten.
Her husband’s paintings are in 36 major collections, but hers are only in 4 smaller ones. Are the collections prejudiced against women painters?
Trained by Laurens at the Académie Julian, he was a superb history painter, quite Impressionist, and a founding father of Venezuelan art.
After 1900, he painted more landscapes, first of Morocco, then of the Spanish countryside.
Sorolla was not the only major painter in Spain around 1900. Here are some major works from Simonet, from 1887 to 1899.
An exhibition in Washington, Boston, and Venice, and three superb books about this master painter and Impressionist. And some of his paintings, of course.
Did he just paint fashionable women in fashionable clothing, or was there more to this hugely successful artist?
Le Chevalier aux Fleurs (Musée d’Orsay) is not just frivolous chivalry and a bevy of Playboy bunnies. There is much more than that.
If you thought that Klimt was the only important Austrian painter of the 1800s, look here: more radical than even French artists.
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