Browse by Subject | American Impressionism Archive

Landscapes

Fields, orchards, harbors and river valleys - Robinson's Seine valley from Giverny, Twachtman's Ohio and Connecticut etchings, Weir's Connecticut countryside and Hassam's East Hampton and Land of Nod prints.

38 works

Trees

Elms, hickories, cedars and orchards, largely from Hassam's etchings of East Hampton, Long Island and New England villages, along with Cassatt's Gathering Fruit and Under the Horse-Chestnut Tree.

33 works

Portraits

Portraits of family, friends and fellow artists - Hassam's lithograph of Joseph Pennell, Weir's etched portraits, Chase's sitters and Cassatt's prints of her mother and young models.

23 works

Buildings

18 works

Interiors

Parlors, opera boxes and lamplit rooms: Cassatt's women at tea and by the fire, Hassam's window-lit studio prints and the occasional workshop or stock-exchange floor.

18 works

Architecture

14 works

Boats

Sloops, harbors and docks from Gloucester to Cos Cob and the Isle of Man, by Hassam, Weir, Twachtman and Robinson.

14 works

Houses

Shingled farmhouses, colonial cottages and old village houses - especially Hassam's prints of East Hampton, Cos Cob and the Land of Nod.

14 works

Mother And Child

Cassatt's defining theme: mothers bathing, kissing and holding small children in her 1890-91 color prints, her later drypoints and her drawings - the subject she painted almost exclusively after 1900.

13 works

Girls

Young girls as subjects - Cassatt's Little Girl in a Blue Armchair and her drypoints of Margot and Reine, Weir's girls in large hats and Hassam's portrait print Virginia.

12 works