Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Emerging in 19th-century France, Impressionist art embraced loose brushwork and plein-air painting to respond to the movement of daily life. Although the pioneers of the Impressionist movement — Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, Paul Cézanne, Berthe Morisot, Camille Pissarro, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir — are now household names, their work was a radical break with an art scene led and shaped by academic traditions for around two centuries. These academies had oversight of a curriculum that emphasized formal drawing, painting and sculpting techniques and historical themes.
The French Impressionists were influenced by a group of artists known as the Barbizon School, who painted what they witnessed in nature. The rejection of pieces by these artists and the later Impressionists from the salons culminated in a watershed 1874 exhibition in Paris that was staged outside of the juried systems. After a work of Monet’s was derided by a critic as an unfinished “impression,” the term was taken as a celebration of their shared interest in capturing fleeting moments as subject matter, whether the shifting weather on rural landscapes or the frenzy of an urban crowd. Rather than the exacting realism of the academic tradition, Impressionist paintings, sculptures, prints and drawings represented how an artist saw a world in motion.
Many Impressionist painters were inspired by the perspectives in imported Japanese prints alongside these shifts in European painting — Édouard Manet drew on ukiyo-e woodblock prints and depicted Japanese design in his Portrait of Émile Zola, for example. American artists such as Mary Cassatt and William Merritt Chase, who studied abroad, were impacted by the work of the French artists, and by the late 19th century American Impressionism had its own distinct aesthetics with painters responding to the rapid modernization of cities through quickly created works that were vivid with color and light.
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1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Cardboard
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Crayon
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Artist Siyuan Ma presents a snow-capped landscape enveloped by light fog. The abstract imagery takes the viewer into a dreamlike world ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Artist Joe Giuffrida displays an impressionist perspective of the Hudson Valley. He approximates the feel of an overcast and humid day along a tributary of the ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink, Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1880s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper, Color Pencil
1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Crayon
Artist Comments
Artist Siyuan Ma exhibits an abstract landscape of dark misty mountains. The imagery takes the viewer into a dreamlike world of meander...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1880s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pencil
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Acrylic
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Charcoal
1870s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel, Board, Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Artist Comments
Artist Siyuan Ma exhibits a panoramic view of mountains engulfed by a mysterious fog. He presents aesthetic imagery that can take the viewer into a dreamlike wo...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1960s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Ink
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1990s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1980s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1910s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Charcoal
Artist Comments
Artist Catherine shares a peek into the beautiful autumnal woodlands of California, presenting her keen eye for color and ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1910s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor