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Follow the feet as you make your way through the M.H. de Young Museum's grand exhibition, "Birth of Impressionism: Masterpieces From the Musée d'Orsay," which opens Saturday. Not fellow visitors' feet ...

In 1874, a group of artists defied the rigid rules of academic painting and created Impressionism—a movement that captured fleeting light, everyday life, and raw emotion. Figures like Monet, Cassatt, ...

Claude Monet, in Giverny, was plagued by American painters. They knocked at his door, tried to get into his water lily gardens and rented local cottages in the hope of studying with the master. The ...

In his masterpiece “A Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte,” the French post-Impressionist Georges Seurat demanded that the world look at art in a shocking new way. He never sold a ...

Once a rebellious movement dismissed by critics, Impressionist art has evolved into one of the most coveted and stable asset classes in the art market. With historical significance, enduring aesthetic ...