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Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet
George T. M. Shackelford & Fronia E. Wissman (eds.)
Impressions of Light is the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's rich survey of a century of French landscape art, drawn entirely from its own remarkable collection. Published in 2002 and edited by George T. M. Shackelford and Fronia E. Wissman, it gathers more than eighty paintings and seventy works on paper by some fifty-six artists, tracing the landscape from the Barbizon painters—Corot, Millet, Daubigny—through the Impressionists and beyond to Cézanne, Van Gogh, and Gauguin. Rather than telling a tidy story of steady progress toward Impressionism, the book attends to crosscurrents and to the variety of media—oil, print, and photography—in which artists explored the natural world and influenced one another. Lavishly illustrated and clearly written, it doubles as a tour of one of the great Impressionist holdings anywhere. For anyone who loves nineteenth-century French painting, or the landscape tradition that culminated in Monet, it's an ample and rewarding volume.
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The book
Published by MFA Publications in 2002 and edited by George T. M. Shackelford and Fronia E. Wissman, Impressions of Light: The French Landscape from Corot to Monet accompanied an exhibition drawn from the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston's collection. It brings together over eighty paintings and seventy works on paper by some fifty-six artists across a range of media.
The subject
The book traces French landscape art from the Barbizon school through Impressionism and Post-Impressionism, treating it not as a single line of development but as a web of overlapping approaches in painting, printmaking, and photography.
How to read it
As both catalog and collection tour. It's especially satisfying on the range of a single great museum's holdings, from Corot and Millet to Monet, Van Gogh, and Gauguin.
For more context
Read alongside Paul Hayes Tucker's writings on Monet and general histories of the Barbizon and Impressionist landscape.
Sources
- Type
- Exhibition catalog
- Author / Maker
- George T. M. Shackelford & Fronia E. Wissman (eds.)
- Publisher
- MFA Publications (Museum of Fine Arts, Boston)
- Place of publication
- Boston
- Year
- 2002
- ISBN
- 0-87846-646-0
- Shelf
- Art
- Location
- Maine