The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston possesses one of the world's finest collections of nineteenth-century French and American art. This colourful book, the catalogue of an exhibition at the Royal Academy, illustrates many of its highlights. As she outlines the history of the collection, Erica Hirshler considers the taste in Boston for atmospheric landscapes which, by the late 1880s, had led young Boston painters to Monet's door. Their willingness to embrace Impressionism helped to popularize this style of painting throughout the United States. All the high points of Boston's nineteenth-century collections are revealed here, with works by the leading French Impressionist painters and their American counterparts, such as Childe Hassam and Philip Hale.
- ISBN10 1903973600
- ISBN13 9781903973608
- Publish Date July 2005 (first published 4 July 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 8 June 2021
- Publish Country GB
- Imprint Royal Academy of Arts
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 144
- Language English