Timeline
The life and career of American Impressionism, 1880–1920
Mary Cassatt moves to Paris
Cassatt's A Mandoline Player is accepted by the Paris Salon jury, her first Salon acceptance
After both of her Salon entries are rejected, Cassatt is invited by Edgar Degas to exhibit with the Impressionists; J. Alden Weir, studying in Paris, writes home in April that he never saw 'more horrible things' than an Impressionist show
Cassatt paints Little Girl in a Blue Armchair, with advice - and some work on the background - from Degas
Cassatt shows eleven works in the fourth Impressionist exhibition in Paris; she also exhibits in 1880, 1881 and 1886, the only American to show with the group
On July 19 Weir acquires a 153-acre farm at Branchville, Connecticut, from the collector Erwin Davis in exchange for a painting and ten dollars
In April Paul Durand-Ruel's exhibition of some three hundred Impressionist works, presented by the American Art Association, opens in New York; Cassatt lends two paintings
Durand-Ruel opens his first permanent gallery in the United States, in New York
Theodore Robinson is living next door to Claude Monet at Giverny
John Henry Twachtman settles in Greenwich, Connecticut, the beginning of the Cos Cob art colony
Twachtman buys his Greenwich farm and probably begins summer classes at Cos Cob; a large exhibition of Japanese woodblock prints at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris inspires Cassatt's color prints
Cassatt's first solo exhibition, at Durand-Ruel in Paris, includes her set of ten color prints; William Merritt Chase opens the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art on Long Island
Robinson paints the Seine valley from the hills of Giverny and leaves France for the last time
Cassatt completes The Boating Party at Antibes (winter 1893-94)
Theodore Robinson dies in New York on April 2
In December Hassam, Weir, Twachtman and others resign from the Society of American Artists
The Ten American Painters hold their first exhibition at the Durand-Ruel galleries in New York (March 31 - April 16)
Henry Ward Ranger founds the Old Lyme art colony at Florence Griswold's boarding house
Twachtman dies in Gloucester, Massachusetts, on August 8; Chase takes his place in the Ten; his Shinnecock summer school ends
Childe Hassam first comes to Old Lyme
Cassatt is made a member of the Legion of Honor
Willard Metcalf paints May Night, Florence Griswold's house by moonlight
May Night wins the Corcoran Gallery of Art's gold medal and becomes the first contemporary American painting the Corcoran buys
The Armory Show opens in New York; Hassam exhibits six paintings
Hassam begins his flag series after a Preparedness Parade on Fifth Avenue; Chase dies in New York on October 25
Hassam paints Allies Day, May 1917, after the United States enters the First World War
Hassam buys a house in East Hampton, Long Island; Weir dies in New York on December 8
Mary Cassatt dies at the Chateau de Beaufresne near Paris on June 14
Childe Hassam dies in East Hampton on August 27
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