Pennsylvania Impressionism

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Pennsylvania Impressionism refers to the 20th century art movement that was centered in and around Bucks County, Pennsylvania, particularly the area around the town of New Hope.

The movement is sometimes referred to as the "New Hope School" or the "Pennsylvania School" of landscape painting.

1 The art colony at New Hope
2 The Late Pennsylvania School
3 See also
4 References

[edit] The art colony at New Hope

[edit] The Late Pennsylvania School

Art historian Thomas C. Folk defines the Late Pennsylvania School as those artists that "came to prominence in Bucks County after 1915 or after the Armory Show and the Panama-Pacific International Exposition." According to Folk, the three most notable artists in this group were John Fulton Folinsbee, Walter Emerson Baum and George Sotter.

Baum's work as a teacher and educator, through his founding of the Baum School of Art and the Allentown Art Museum, would serve to expand the influence of the movement out of Bucks County and into Lehigh County, specifically Allentown and the Lehigh Valley, where the movement continued to flourish into the 1940s and 1950s. Today, this group of artists is collectively known as the Baum Circle.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

Folk, Thomas C. (1997). The Pennsylvania Impressionists, First Edition, New Jersey: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press. ISBN 0-8386-3699-3.

Gerdts, William H. (2001). American Impressionism, Second Edition, New York: Abbeville Press Publishers. ISBN 0-7892-0737-0.

Peterson, Brian H. (Editor) (2002). Pennsylvania Impressionism. Philadelphia: James A. Michener Art Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press. ISBN 0-8122-3700-5.

Western art movements