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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1910s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Pencil
Artist Comments
The fishing boats in San Pedro are rich in historical color. They are passed down from generation to generation. The painting draws attention to the foreground ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Artist Comments
While traveling in the Pacific Northwest, artist Thomas Hoerber photographed this scene during a small break in the overcast sky. The sun slowly broke through, ...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1970s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor, Gouache
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Crayon, Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper, Pastel, Oil Crayon, Color Pencil
1950s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Permanent Marker, Ink
1920s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1860s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Carbon Pencil
20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Archival Paper
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
1940s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache, Charcoal, Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Artist Comments
A wintry scene unfolds with bare trees and geese in flight along a riverbank. Tangled weeds create intricate patterns that harmonize with the freeform structure...
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
Late 19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Watercolor
1890s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
1990s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Oil Pastel, Paper
Early 2000s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor
2010s Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Pastel, Archival Paper, Color Pencil
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper, Color Pencil, Pastel
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Archival Paper, Watercolor
21st Century and Contemporary Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor, Paper
Early 20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Paper, Pastel
19th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Gouache
Mid-20th Century Impressionist Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Watercolor