Tag: Impressionists

Impressionist – Armand Guillaumin

—Self Portrait, Armand Guillaumin, 1878, oil on canvas, Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam Armand Guillaumin lived from February 1841 to June 1927. Guillaumin was part of the group of Paris painters known as the Impressionists. Growing up, he worked in his uncle’s lingerie shop. He took art classes in the evenings. In 1861, he attended the Académie Suisse…

Paris Street; Rainy Day (Rue de Paris; temps de pluie)

The current exhibition at the Kimbell Art Museum in Ft. Worth is one of the better shows of the Impressionists that I have seen in a while. The paintings in The Impressionists: Master Paintings from the Art Institute of Chicago are being shown at the Kimbell while the Art Institute is going through some renovations.…