The New York Times

Time Traveling Through London With an Impressionist Painter

A writer used Camille Pissarro’s paintings of suburban London and a ‘lost’ railway as a lens for exploring the city’s history — and settling an arcane mystery. The Crystal Palace railway station is ...
Observer

‘Paris 1874’ Shows the Early Impressionists Reaching for New Ways of Seeing

One of the most arresting works in the new Impressionism show at the National Gallery of Art isn’t by an impressionist. It’s Antonin Mercié’s Gloria Victis, a resplendent bronze modeled after one from ...
THE WEEK

After Impressionism review: ‘incontestable masterpieces’ at the National Gallery

The story of the great changes that occurred in painting in late 19th and early 20th century France is “probably the most frequently told” in all art history, said Mark Hudson in The Independent. The ...
The Washington Post

‘The Impressionist Moment’ is a smart, bracing and unmissable art show

From left, “The Cradle” by Berthe Morisot, “The Mother and Sister of the Artist” by Berthe Morisot, “The Luncheon” by Claude Monet, “The Artist's Daughter, Marie-Anne Carolus-Duran” by Charles Emile ...
The Atlantic

The Exhibit That Will Change How You See Impressionism

Check out more from this issue and find your next story to read. Famously, of course, Impressionism was not greeted with love at the outset. In 1874, the first Impressionist exhibition was derided in ...