They originated those starving artist shows 150 years ago. The critics hated their paintings, and for years nobody bought them. But today, those same canvases fetch multimillions, and Auguste Renoir, ...

COPENHAGEN--(BUSINESS WIRE)--The 150th anniversary of the first impressionist exhibition in Paris in 1874 is celebrated at Ordrupgaard with a magnificent exhibition highlighting the women of ...

Fred Travalena, the master impressionist and singer whose broad repertoire of voices ranged from Jack Nicholson to Sammy Davis Jr. to Bugs Bunny, has died. He was 66. Travalena, who began treatment ...

Berthe Morisot, “Reading (The Green Umbrella)” (1873), oil on fabric (Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1950.89, photo © Cleveland Museum of Art ...

While many have focused on Monet's Impression, Sunrise as a key Impressionist painting, another image was pivotal to the movement that launched 150 years ago. In art, it's all about the hands – those ...

Impressionism started out 151 years ago out as a rebellious movement, derided by critics, but it’s box office gold these days, and museums worldwide celebrated its sesquicentennial with major ...

There’s something disheartening—a note of special pleading—about the subtitle, “Woman Impressionist,” of a breathtaking Berthe Morisot retrospective at the Barnes Foundation, in Philadelphia. (Imagine ...

Luckily, Berthe and her sister Edma had parents wealthy enough to employ artists like the renowned landscape painter Camille Corot to give them private lessons. They even had their own studio and, ...