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