Although Monet played an essential role in the history of Impressionism, he defined his connection with the Impressionist circle as a brief interlude in his long and productive career.

Renoir, Monet, and their associates in the Impressionist circle were beginning to find ways to leave behind the shadowy chiaroscuro of earlier European painting, which they associated with a rural world now lost to modern experience.

Events The popular exhibit "Mary Cassatt, Modern Woman" puts a feminist cast on the only American in the Impressionist circle in France.

Mary Cassatt was the first and only American in the original Impressionist circle.

Explore the artwork of the original Impressionist circle, as well as beautiful paintings by Impressionist artists who followed in their footsteps.

Indeed, Dewhurst thanks the celebrated female painter Mary Cassatt (who worked within the Impressionist circle) for her assistance in the preface of his book.

Matilda Browne, one of the few women admitted to the Impressionist circle, is represented by a kneeling cow that virtually fills the small frame.

She exhibited in the Impressionist Exhibitions that followed in 1880 and 1881, and she remained an active member of the Impressionist circle until 1886.

She soon became an insider in the Impressionist circle, both as an artist and an advocate.

It was characteristic of members of the Impressionist circle to accept the modern landscape as they found it without idealization or judgment.