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Impressionism Abroad: Boston And French Paintings by Erica E Hirshler; Mary Anne Stevens; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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<p>The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of 19th-century French and American art, with works by Degas, Manet, Pissarro, Renoir, Sisley, and Sargent. This colorful book, the first published on the collection, illustrates many of its highlights.<BR><BR>Author Erica Hirshler outlines the history of the collection and considers the taste in Boston for atmospheric landscapes which, by the late 1880s, had led young Boston painters like Childe Hassam to Monet's door. Their willingness to embrace Impressionism helped to popularize this style of painting throughout the United States.<BR><BR>All the high points of Boston's 19th-century collections are revealed here, with works by the leading French Impressionist painters and their American counterparts.</p>

Author

Erica E Hirshler; Mary Anne Stevens; Royal Academy of Arts (Great Britain); Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Publisher

London: Royal Academy of Arts ; New York: Distributed in the United States and Canada by Harry N. Abrams

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9781903973776

Subjects

Art, History, Arts