Not exact matches
He is past Chair of the Board of the Mid-Atlantic
Plein Air Painters Association and serves as installations
lead at Quiet Waters Gallery.
The style was exemplified by the
plein air painting of Monet, Sisley, Renoir and Camille Pissarro, although other
painters were also part of the Impressionist group, including Edgar Degas, Paul Cezanne, Frederic Bazille, Gustave Caillebotte, as well as Mary Cassatt, one of the
leading figures of the American Impressionism movement (c.1880 - 1900).
The early years of the 19th century witnessed the Golden Age of English landscape painting,
led by Turner and Constable, and also the development of
plein -
air techniques by the Barbizon school, and later by Monet's style of French Impressionism - methods greatly facilitated by the invention of portable collapsible tin paint tubes in 1841, by American
painter John Rand.
Other
leading members of this
plein air painting movement included members of the school of English landscape painting, such as John Constable (1776 - 1837) and Richard Parkes Bonington (1802 - 28), as well as French
painters like Theodore Rousseau (1812 - 67), Camille Corot (1796 - 1875), Narcisse Diaz de la Pena (1808 - 1876), Charles - Francois Daubigny (1817 - 1878), Jules Dupre (1811 - 1889), Joseph Harpignies (1819 - 1916), Constant Troyon (1810 - 1865), Charles - Emile Jacque (1813 - 1894), Antoine - Louis Barye (1796 - 1875), Albert Charpin, Felix Ziem and Alexandre De Faux.