The Pennsylvania Impressionists

The Pennsylvania Impressionists
ISBN-10
0838636993
ISBN-13
9780838636992
Category
Art / History / General
Pages
136
Language
English
Published
1997
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Author
Thomas Folk

Description

The New Hope Group, which was comprised of the leading artists from this school, with the exception of Edward Redfield, was founded in 1916. Its members encountered overwhelming success when they exhibited at the Panama-Pacific Exposition in 1915. However, after World War I, interest in Impressionism in general began to fade. Nevertheless, landscape painters continued to settle in the New Hope vicinity into the 1940s. New and more radical developments in the art world made the art of these painters seem hopelessly old fashioned. The Pennsylvania Impressionists were considered the most American of American painters, and they recorded the unique character of old New Hope, with its canal and canal boats, fieldstone houses, and rock quarries. They left a legacy of peace and beauty.

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