1894, Theodore Robinson, Girl in Hammock -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Among the many American artists who traveled to Giverny, France, to paint with the famed Impressionist Claude Monet, none formed a closer friendship with the elder artist than Robinson. Working alongside Monet, Robinson absorbed and adapted the lessons of French Impressionism, a movement in which artists typically rendered the effects of light through the application of brightly toned pigment and loose brushstrokes. Girl in Hammock was painted during one of the few summers the artist did not travel to France but nonetheless shows the influence of French Impressionism, especially in the dappling effect of light cast through the shade of the trees supporting the hammock.
1894, Theodore Robinson, Girl in Hammock -- Virginia Museum of Fine Arts (Richmond)
From the museum label: Among the many American artists who traveled to Giverny, France, to paint with the famed Impressionist Claude Monet, none formed a closer friendship with the elder artist than Robinson. Working alongside Monet, Robinson absorbed and adapted the lessons of French Impressionism, a movement in which artists typically rendered the effects of light through the application of brightly toned pigment and loose brushstrokes. Girl in Hammock was painted during one of the few summers the artist did not travel to France but nonetheless shows the influence of French Impressionism, especially in the dappling effect of light cast through the shade of the trees supporting the hammock.