impressionist
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James Austin Johnson is a brilliant impressionist, but read the room, guys.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 24, 2026
When thieves broke into a French museum earlier this week and stole four paintings by the impressionist artist Pierre-Auguste Renoir, worth millions of euros, not everyone was surprised.
From BBC ● Sep. 12, 2026
Bryan Masson, the mayor of the southern town of Cagnes-sur-Mer, said the duo appeared "well equipped and well informed" about the museum housing works by French impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
The thieves dropped two paintings in their escape, said Bryan Masson, the mayor of Cagnes-sur-Mer, the French Riviera town where the French impressionist spent his final years and that now houses the museum.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 8, 2026
Before long, everyone in the Einsatzstab Reichsleiter Rosenberg— the men out there scouring the continent for hidden libraries, concealed prayer scrolls, closeted impressionist paintings—will be handed rifles and sent into the fire.
From "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr
The gallery also features works by impressionists Edouard Manet, Claude Monet and Paul Cezanne.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2024
The fluid brushstrokes made Hals a major influence of later artists like Vincent van Gogh and impressionists like Édouard Manet.
From Seattle Times ● Feb. 13, 2024
Back in the ’70s, impressionists used to do Nixon, and they were probably more accurate.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 11, 2023
“All the impressionists even had classes with each other.”
From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2023
Degas is the only other painter usually classed with the impressionists, of whom this may not be said.
From French Art Classic and Contemporary Painting and Sculpture by W. C. (William Crary) Brownell
