1. Impressionism "All that is solid melts into air" (Marx and Engels, Communist Manifesto, 1848) "Capture your Moments" (Kodak ad, 1888)

2. IMPRESSIONISM – Paris, the 1870s WHAT WAS SO “MODERN” ABOUT IT? How can it have been avant-garde when it is so easy to like, not at all “shocking”?

3. (left) Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Portrait of Claude Monet. 1875, o/c, Musée d'Orsay, Paris (right) Claude Monet. Self-Portrait. 1886, o/c, private collection, Paris (center) Edouard Manet, Portrait of Monet, 1880, india ink on paper, Musée Marmottan

4. (left) Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749–1832) Color Theory, 1805-1829 (center) Michel-Eugène Chevreul, color wheel, c.1860 1888—First Kodak Camera

5. Claude Monet: Northern Coast of France (La Manche, or English Channel),

6. James Whistler (American expatriate in London) - Harmony in Blue and Silver, Trouville, 1865

7. James Whistler, Nocturne in Black and Gold: The Falling Rocket, 1875 Oil on wood, 23 3/4 x 18 3/8 in. (60.3 x 46.6 cm) Detroit Institute of Arts http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152- 3/rpower/archives/001951.html Information re. 1877 slander suit against John Ruskin “I have seen, and heard, much of cockney impudence before now; but never expected a coxcomb to ask two hundred guineas for flinging a pot of paint in the public’s face” - Ruskin, 1877 review http://blogs.princeton.edu/wri152- 3/rpower/archives/001951.html

8. Gustave Courbet, Low tide, Trouville, 1865

9. Eugène Boudin (French, 1824-1898), (top) Vacationers on the Beach at Trouville, 1864; (bottom) Boudin,. The Beach at Deauville, 1863, oil on canvas Painting out of doors: “en plein air”

10. (top) Claude Monet, The Beach at St-Address, 1867 Bottom) Boudin, View of Portrieux,1865

11. Precursor painters – sources of Impressionism

12. John Constable (English), The Haywain, 1821

13. Constable, Cloud Study, 1822, Oil on paper laid on board,12 x 19 1/4 inches Courtauld Institute Galleries, London

14. Joseph Mallord William Turner (English, 1775-1851), Rain, Steam & Speed: The Great Western Railroad, exhibited in 1844 at the Royal Academy, London, oil on canvas. Romantic landscape painter studied by Claude Monet in London in1870 (in refuge from the Franco-Prussian war.

15. Théodore Rousseau (French, 1812-1867) Forest of Fontainebleau, Morning, 1850 “Barbison School”

16. Eugene Delacroix (French), (top) Tiger Hunt, 1854 (bottom) Odalisque, 1855. Oil on wood, and photographic study ORIENTALISM “Delacroix, an alchemist of color, miraculous, profound, mysterious, sensual, awesome: explosive color and subdued color, a penetrating harmony. The gestures of man and animal. The scowl of the beast, the snufflings of animality.” Baudelaire

17. (left) Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Madame Leblanc 1823 Oil on canvas. Metropolitan MA, New York City; Eugène Delacroix. Self Portrait. c.1837. oïl on canvas. Louvre, Paris

18. Claude Monet, Luncheon on the Grass, 1866

19. (left) Claude Monet, Dejeuner sur l’herbe (Luncheon on the Grass), 1866, Oil on canvas. Edouard Manet, Dejeuner sur l’herbe, 1863

20. Claude Monet, La Grenouillere 1869, oil on canvas 75x100cm Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

21. Claude Monet, La Grenouillère, 1869 Auguste Renoir, La Grenouillère ("The Frog Pond") 1869 Painted side by side at Bougival on the Seine river

22. Monet, The Thames at Westminster, 1871, Oil on canvas, 47 x 72.5 cm (18 1/2 x 28 1/2"), National Gallery, London

23. First Impressionist Exhibition 15 April 1874: “Exhibition of the Société Anonyme of Painters, Sculptors, and Printmakers” (left) Nadar (Gaspard-Felix Tournachon) (1820-1910) Nadar¹s Studio at 35 Boulevard des Capucines’ (right) Claude Monet, Boulevard des Capucines, 1873 (31 1/4 x 23 1/4")

24. Claude Monet, Impression, Sunrise 1873

25. Monet, Railroad Bridge at Argenteuil, 1874 Anonymous, photo of the Argenteuil Railway Bridge, c. 1895 The Impressionist Eye is, in short, the most advanced eye in human evolution Jules Laforgue

26. Monet, The Gare Saint-Lazare, 1877, National Gallery, London

27. Monet, The Stroll, Camille Monet and Her Son Jean (Woman with a Parasol) 1875 Oil on canvas (39 3/8 x 31 7/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

28. Monet, Camille on Her Deathbed, 1879 oil on canvas 90 x 68 cm Musee d'Orsay, Paris

29. Monet, Rock Arch West of Etretat (The Manneport), 1883, Oil on canvas (25 3/4 x 32 in.) Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Compare to photograph of Etretat cliff

30. Monet's home and garden at Giverny (below right) Studio constructed for the Nympheas (Water lilies) Series

31. Monet, Water Lilies (The Clouds) 1903 Oil on canvas (29 3/8 x 41 7/16 in.) Private collection

33. Monet, Haystack, Winter Effect, 1890

34. Monet, Rouen Cathedral, the West Portal, Dull Weather dated 1894, painted 1892 Oil on canvas 39 3/8 x 25 5/8 in. (100 x 65 cm) Musee d'Orsay, Paris http://www.learn.columbia.edu/monet /swf/ Click for information about Monet’s Rouen Cathedral series, 1892-4 http://www.learn.columbia.edu/monet /swf/

35. Monet, Rouen Cathedral, the West Portal and Saint-Romain Tower, Full Sunlight, Harmony in Blue and Gold, dated 1894, painted 1893, Oil on canvas, 42 1/8 x 28 3/4 in. Musee d'Orsay, Paris

36. (left) photoportrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir Frédéric Bazille, Portrait of Pierre-Auguste Renoir 1867, Oil on canvas, (37 x 32 1/3 in); Musee d'Orsay, Paris

37. Claude Monet, La Grenouillère, 1869 Auguste Renoir, La Grenouillère ("The Frog Pond") 1869 Painted side by side at Bougival on the Seine river

38. Renoir, The Dance at the Moulin de La Galette (Montmartre), 1876

39. Renoir, Luncheon of the Boating Party, 1881

40. Madame Charpentier and Her Children Paul and Georgette 1878, Metropolitan Museum

41. Renoir, Torso of a Woman in Sunlight, 1876 Fragonard, Bathers, 1756.

42. Berthe Morisot, Self Portrait, 1885; Manet, Portrait of Berthe Morisot, 1872

43. Berthe Morisot (left) and daughter, Julie Manet (right)

44. Morisot, The Artist's Sister and Mother, Shown at the Salon of 1870, the last Salon of the Second EmpireRetouched by Manet

45. Morisot, Trocadero, 1872 Manet, 1867 Paris World’s Fair, Trocadero

46. Morisot, The Cradle (sister Edma and child), 1872, o/c (Morisot married in 1874) Exhibited in the First Impressionist exhibition

47. Morisot, The Wet Nurse Angèle Feeding Julie Manet, 1880. Private collection

48. MARY CASSATT (American, 1844-1926) Edgar Degas, Mary Cassatt at the Louvre with Sister, 1879 and Portrait of Mary Cassatt, c. 1884

49. Mary Stevenson Cassatt, Offering the Panal to the Bullfighter, 1873 Oil on canvas, 39 5/8 x 33 1/2 in. Signed, dated, and inscribed lower right: Mary S. Cassatt./Seville./1873.

50. Renoir, The Loge, 1874 Mary Cassatt, The Loge,

51. Mary Cassatt, Woman and Child Driving, o/c, 1881, Philadelphia

52. Mary Cassatt (American Impressionist) In the Omnibus, drypoint and aquatint in colors, series of 10, 1890-91 Suzuki Harunobu, (Japanese Ukiyo-e printmaker) 1724-1770) Women and Child, woodblock print, c.1750 Ukiyo-e prints were key source for modernist 2-D pictures in form but also in content.

53. Mary Cassatt, The Bath, 1891

54. Women's Building, Sophie Hayden, architect World's Columbian Exhibition of 1893 in Chicago Cassatt’s Modern Woman mural: 12’- 58’ – lost

55. Young Women Picking Fruit of Knowledge and Science, 1892 Women’s Building, Chicago Worlds Fair