The last days of summer often arrive with a hint of melancholy, and maybe a twinge of anxiety. Berthe Morisot, one of the Impressionist movement’s few well-known women artists, had a particular gift ...

The French Impressionist painter Berthe Morisot has long been overshadowed in art history by male contemporaries such as Claude Monet, Edgar Degas, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir. But at long last, Morisot ...

An exhibition sets out to rescue Morisot from the assumption that she was under Manet’s influence, but it's far from academic ...

The extraordinarily close artistic relationship of the Realist Edouard Manet (1832-1883), who is often described as the father of modern painting, and Berthe Morisot (1841-1895), a crucial, ...

Berthe Morisot, “Reading (The Green Umbrella)” (1873), oil on fabric (Cleveland Museum of Art, Gift of the Hanna Fund, 1950.89, photo © Cleveland Museum of Art ...

While many have focused on Monet's Impression, Sunrise as a key Impressionist painting, another image was pivotal to the movement that launched 150 years ago. In art, it's all about the hands – those ...

The still of the seaside, away from the noise and gossip of the city. Lapping waves, gentle breeze. It's a bit overcast, but why complain? We’re on vacation. Impressionist paintings, after decades of ...

There’s something disheartening—a note of special pleading—about the subtitle, “Woman Impressionist,” of a breathtaking Berthe Morisot retrospective at the Barnes Foundation, in Philadelphia. (Imagine ...

For more than a century, the story of the relationship between Impressionist artists Édouard Manet and Berthe Morisot has been painted as one of exclusively male influence. But a new exhibition at the ...