Changing the Landscape: Women Impressionists

Drawn solely from the collection of Thomas Clark, whose collection includes works by at least nineteen female artists, the exhibition explores the work of less well-known American female impressionists. The exhibition includes works from artists trained in Boston, New York City, Philadelphia, and Europe. 

In the nineteenth century, one of the few paths for independence for a middle-class woman was to study art either at a school or under the tutelage of a master such as William Merritt Chase. While able to travel abroad, the women represented in the exhibition spent their careers on the East Coast, in the Midwest, and in California. Few earned the longstanding recognition their artistry deserved.

Credit: Exhibition overview from museum website.
Image: Anne Ramsdell Congdon (American, 1873-1958), Nantucket Harbor, 1935, oil on canvas board, 8 x 10 in., The Thomas Clark Collection of American Paintings.