Impressions in Ink presents thirty exceptional prints by French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists including Cézanne, Daumier, Degas, Gauguin, Manet, Matisse, Pissarro, and Toulouse-Lautrec, drawn from the superb collection of the Gallery’s founder, Arthur Ross.
The exhibition inaugurates the Arthur Ross Gallery’s 35th Anniversary year, which includes a national symposium and interdisciplinary programs. Organized with Yale University Art Gallery, all works are lent from the Arthur Ross Collection.
Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website
Whether you visit the exhibition or not, the book, The Impressionist Print, examines the prints of Impressionist painter-printmakers. Degas, Pissarro, Cassatt, Renoir, Morisot, Bracquemond, Manet, Whistler—these and other Impressionist painters often experimented with printmaking techniques, producing black and white etchings, aquatints, dry points, and color lithographs that exhibited the same easy yet subtle attraction that makes their oil paintings so beloved. In this beautiful book, an eminent authority provides a new understanding of Impressionism and of contemporary printmaking.
Drawing on discoveries of the last two decades and on his own research, Michel Melot locates the sources and influences of the prints and analyzes their techniques—particularly in monotypes and embossed prints. In so doing he reveals the close ties between the Impressionist movement and the rebirth of artists' prints in the second half of the 19th century. His analysis of the relations among artists, the art market, art criticism, collectors, and political institutions makes Impressionism appear less like a miracle and more a response to the social and economic upheavals of the nineteenth century.
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