Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age
Theodore Wendel (1859–1932)
Brook, Giverny, 1887
Theodore Wendel studied with the influential teacher Frank Duveneck (1848–1919) in Cincinnati, Ohio, and traveled with fellow students throughout Europe in the early 1880s. Later, he was among the first group of visiting artists to spend time in the French village of Giverny, home of the master impressionist Claude Monet (1840–1926). The landscape paintings Wendel made during his two summers there are considered some of the earliest by an American artist to incorporate the hallmarks of impressionism. Here he depicts one of the many small streams feeding the lush meadows that surround the village. An expanse of green dominates the foreground, and the brook is an angular ribbon of darker green curving into the background, overshadowed by trees lining its banks. Brook, Giverny demonstrates a transition in Wendel’s work away from the realism of his academic training and toward the gradual assimilation of a more spontaneous and immediate painting mode associated with impressionism.
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Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Une Averse—rue Bonaparte, 1887
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock, c. 1897
Edmund C. Tarbell (1862–1938)
In the Orchard, 1891
Mary Cassatt (1844–1926)
Summertime, 1894
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Breton Woman with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Breton Girl with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Girl on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Young Boy on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
The Zattere: Harmony in Blue and Brown, c. 1879
James Abbott McNeill Whistler (1834–1903)
Note in Red: The Siesta, by 1884
Joseph H. Boston (1860–1954)
From Shore to Shore, 1885
George de Forest Brush (1855–1941)
The Weaver, 1889
Theodore Wendel (1859–1932)
Brook, Giverny, 1887
Irving Ramsey Wiles (1861–1948)
On the Veranda, 1887
Charles Courtney Curran (1861–1942)
Lotus Lilies, 1888
Dennis Miller Bunker (1861–1890)
Brittany Town Morning, Larmor, 1884
John Singer Sargent (1856–1925)
Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, 1888
William Merritt Chase (1849–1916)
Spring Flowers (Peonies), by 1889
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Horse Drawn Cabs at Evening, New York, c. 1890
John Leslie Breck (1860–1899)
Garden at Giverny (In Monet's Garden), c. 1887–91
Guy Rose (1867–1925)
Giverny Hillside, c. 1890–91
Childe Hassam (1859–1935)
Horticulture Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893
Theodore Robinson (1852–1896)
Blossoms at Giverny, 1891–92
Lilla Cabot Perry (1848–1933)
Self-Portrait, c. 1889–96
Henry Ossawa Tanner (1859–1937)
Les Invalides, Paris, 1896
John H. Twachtman (1853–1902)
Winter Landscape, c. 1890–1900
Willard Metcalf (1858–1925)
Havana Harbor, 1902
Thomas Eakins (1844–1916)
Portrait of Thomas J. Eagan, 1907
Thomas Wilmer Dewing (1851–1938)
Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose, 1912
Frederick Carl Frieseke (1874–1939)
Lady in a Garden, c. 1912