Word: impressionists
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Completely uninfluenced by highbrow, esthetic theories and by the splashy Impressionist and Post-Impressionist styles that then dominated French art, Painter Rousseau painted things he enjoyed: exotic, tropical jungles full of childishly round-eyed animals, portraits of his friends, wistful nudes reclining in imaginary, saladlike forest scenes...
...forthright paintings, which had begun to appear in the annual Paris Salons, attracted the attention of Impressionist Edgar Degas, whose delicate, flaky pictures of puff-skirted ballerinas she had always idolized. "I would not have admitted," exclaimed Painter Degas, "that a woman could draw as well as that." Inviting her to join the ranks of the Impressionists who were just then making history by dragging art from its musty museums and studios into the sunlight, Painter Degas gave her some pointers on drawing. The platonic friendship between dapper, ironic Boulevardier Degas and his prim Pennsylvania ward ripened and endured until...
...well as half the great names of French painting, frequented her Paris studio. U.S. art collectors, like the late Mrs. H. O. Havemeyer, sought the assistance of her practiced eye in picking items which later found their way into the greatest U.S. museums. Her fiery championship of her fellow Impressionist painters did much to further French Impressionism's fame in the U.S. art world...
...museum: he and his wife spent 20 years collecting them. Sixty are by contemporary U.S. artists-Robert Brackman, Eugene Speicher, Leon Kroll, Maurice Sterne, Robert Philipp, Jerry Farnsworth. Earlier U.S. artists like Inness, Whistler, Frederick Waugh, Elliott Daingerfield, are represented. English portraitists, a few illustrative old and French Impressionist masters help round out the collection...
Died. Emile Bernard, 73, one of the last of the French impressionist painters, intimate friend of Paul Gauguin, fellow student of Van Gogh, art critic; in Paris...