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Explore the evolution and expansion of Impressionism, an artistic movement that changed the trajectory of art history. Frontiers of Impressionism chronicles the emergence of Impressionism in 19th-century France, its subsequent expansion to much of Europe and the United States, and the lasting changes the movement has brought to the art world. Framed through the lens of the Worcester Art Museum鈥檚 collection of Impressionist works, many of which were acquired when these artists were still living, the exhibition highlights over 30 artists, including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and Max Slevogt. Approximately half of the works in the exhibition will be on view for the first time in decades.

Frontiers of Impressionism will demonstrate firsthand the qualities that defined Impressionist painting: a dedication to capturing on canvas what the eye perceives, an inclination to painting en plein air (outdoors), and an adherence to a painterly technique characterized by lighter, looser brushwork. Move through the exhibition鈥檚 six sections, which group artworks to investigate the revolutionary roots of Impressionism and the emergence of landscape as a rupture to the hierarchy of genres, Paris as the epicenter of Impressionism, networks of Impressionism and the expansion of styles throughout Europe and the United States, the distinctly American Impressionism, how artists defied the limits of Impressionism, and the use of Impressionism in capturing the frontier of the American west.