American Impressionism
Impressionism brought home: Hassam's flags on Fifth Avenue, Chase's beaches at Shinnecock, Twachtman's snow and Theodore Robinson's summers at Giverny.
31 prints · printed to order on heavyweight matte paper · framed or unframed
Light, the American way
Theodore Robinson spent summers at Giverny near Monet in the late 1880s and early 1890s; Childe Hassam, Chase, Twachtman, Weir and Metcalf took the broken brushwork and outdoor light back to New York, Connecticut and the coast of New England. In 1898 ten of them began exhibiting together as the Ten American Painters. Hassam's flag paintings of 1916 to 1919, Fifth Avenue hung with Allied flags, are the movement's best-known pictures.
On the wall
Bright, high-key pictures that suit a sunny room: a kitchen, a garden room, a bedroom with white walls. The beach scenes by Chase and Potthast are a natural set of three for a long wall. Thin black or dark wood frames keep them light.