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Transnational Contexts
This book ofers microhistories related to the transnational circulations of
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The contributors rethink the role of “French” impressionism in shaping these
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that impressionisms might be framed through the mobility studies’ concept of
“constellations of mobility.” Artists engaging with impressionism in France, as in
other global contexts, relied on, responded to, appropriated, and resisted elements
of form and content based on fuid and interconnected political realities and market
structures. Written by scholars and curators, the chapters demand reconsideration of
impressionism as a historical construct and the meanings assigned to that term.
This project frames future discussion in art history, cultural studies, and global
studies on the politics of appropriating impressionism.
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Mapping Impressionist Painting
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Contents
List of Figures vii
List of Contributors xi
Acknowledgments xiv
1 Mapping Impressionist Constellations 1
EMILY C. BURNS AND ALICE M. RUDY PRICE
2 Camille Pissarro, Fritz Melbye, and Early Impressionist
Innovation in Caracas 22
MIA LAUFER
3 Impressionism as Erasure: Whistler and the Chincha Islands War 34
ALEXIS CLARK
4 Frontier Impressionisms in the United States and Australia 49
EMILY C. BURNS
5 Transplanting Impressionism to Canada 65
SAMANTHA BURTON
6 Christian Krohg’s Images of Family Intimacy in the Age of Impressionism 77
ØYSTEIN SJÅSTAD
7 An Arctic Impressionism?: Anna Boberg and the Lofoten Islands 90
ISABELLE GAPP
8 Jeune Turc, Jeune Femme: Impressions of a New “Beauté Orientale” 103
AHU ANTMEN
9 “Only the Colors Should Begin to Compose . . .”: Stanisław
Wyspiański’s Window View(s) and the Politics of Polish Color 117
AMALIA WOJCIECHOWSKI
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10 Institutionalizing Impressionism: Kuroda Seiki and Plein-Air Painting
in Japan 133
CHINGHSIN WU
11 From Famed Masters to a New Generation: Durand-Ruel’s
Transatlantic Label “Impressionism” 145
HADRIEN VIRABEN AND CLAIRE HENDREN
12 “The Rayonnement of Our Ideals”: French, German, and Nordic
Painting in Fin-de-Siècle France 159
NICHOLAS PARKINSON
13 Impressionism Projected: Anna Ancher, Hygge, and Danish Modernism 175
ALICE M. RUDY PRICE
14 “Echoes of Impressionism”: Joaquín Clausell and the Politics of
Mexican Art 192
MARK A. CASTRO
15 Italian Futurism, Socialism, Urban Change, and Impressionism 204
ZOË MARIE JONES
Selected Bibliography 215
Index 228
Figures
1.1 Nicolae Grigorescu, Andreescu at Barbizon, 1878–1888, oil on
canvas, 61.5 × 46 cm, National Museum of Art of Romania,
Bucharest, Inv. 69621/7561. 2
1.2 Fritz Nansen, Timbuktu Landscape, 1908, oil on canvas, 60 × 32.7 cm,
Nationaal Museum van Wereldculturen, the Netherlands (RV-5949–2). 7
1.3 Susette C. Skovgaard Holten, Landscape with Mountains in the
Background, 1893, oil on canvas, 28 × 51 cm, Skovgaard Museet,
Denmark. 10
2.1 Camille Pissarro, Landscape with Figures by a River, n.d., watercolor,
36.83 × 53.97 cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by the
Pissarro Family, 1952. Photo: © Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford. 26
2.2 Camille Pissarro, Wooded Landscape on St. Thomas, 1854–1855,
pencil, 34.29 × 27.94 cm, Ashmolean Museum, Oxford, Presented by
the Pissarro Family, 1952. Photo: © Ashmolean Museum, University
of Oxford. 28
2.3 Camille Pissarro, Two Women Chatting by the Sea, St. Thomas,
1856, oil on canvas, 27.9 × 40.7 cm, National Gallery of Art,
Washington, D.C., Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon,
1985.64.30. Photo: Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington. 29
3.1 James McNeill Whistler, Thames Warehouses, 1859, etching and
drypoint in black ink on cream laid paper; fourth state (of fve),
image: 7.6 × 20.3 cm; sheet: 21.3 × 34.3 cm, Colby Museum of Art,
the Lunder Collection. 38
3.2 James McNeill Whistler, U.S. Coast Survey . . . Reconnaissance of
Smith’s or Blunt’s Island, Washington/U.S. Coast Survey . . . Sketch
of Anacapa Island in Santa Barbara Channel, 1854–1867, transfer
lithograph, image: 29.8 × 23.7 cm sheet: 36.8 × 27.1 cm, Metropolitan
Museum of Art, Harris Brisbane Dick Fund, 1917, 17.3.2378.
Photo: Metropolitan Museum of Art. 40
3.3 James McNeill Whistler, Nocturne in Blue and Gold: Valparaiso,
1866–c. 1874, oil on canvas, 75.6 × 50.1 cm, Freer Gallery of
Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.: Gift of Charles
Lang Freer, F1909.127a–b. 42
3.4 James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Crepuscule in Flesh Colour and
Green, Valparaiso, 1866, oil paint on canvas, 58.6 × 75.9 cm, Tate
Britain, presented by W. Graham Robertson 1940. Photo: © Tate. 43
viii Figures
4.1 Tom Roberts, A Break Away!, 1891, oil on canvas, 137.3 cm
× 167.8 cm, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Elder Bequest
Fund 1899, 0.139. 50
4.2 Frederic Remington, A Dash for the Timber, 1889, oil on canvas,
97.15 × 213.71 cm, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort
Worth, Texas, Amon G. Carter Collection, 1961.381. 50
4.3 Map of Pawnee Reservation Showing Allotments. Kansas City:
Hudson-Kimberly Pub. Co., c. 1893.86 × 41 cm, Library of Congress,
Geography and Map Division, Washington, D.C., 2016586525. 58
5.1 Frances Jones, In the Conservatory, 1883, oil on canvas, 46.5 ×
80.6 cm, Nova Scotia Archives, Halifax, NS. 66
5.2 Frances Jones, Harry in the Morning Room, c. 1886, oil on canvas,
30.4 × 40.6 cm, Private collection. Photo courtesy of the Art Gallery
of Nova Scotia, Halifax, NS. 69
5.3 Tom Thomson, The Jack Pine, 1916–17, oil on canvas, 127.9 ×
139.8 cm, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Acc. #1519. 73
6.1 Christian Krohg, In the Tub, 1889, oil on canvas, 144.3 × 153.7 cm,
Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo: Statens
Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen. 79
6.2 Christian Krohg, In the Morning (small version), 1889, oil on canvas,
46 × 33 cm, private collection. Photographer: Dag A. Ivarsøy.
Photo: © National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design, Oslo. 81
6.3 Oda Krohg, Poor Little One, 1891, oil on canvas, 91 × 116 cm,
private collection. Photo: © O. Væring Eftf. AS, 2020. 83
7.1 Anna Boberg, Boat with Net, Study from Lofoten, n.d., oil on canvas
mounted on board, 24 × 19.5 cm, Collection of the Nationalmuseum,
Stockholm. Image: Linn Ahlgren/Nationalmuseum. 91
7.2 Anna Boberg, Lofoten in Violet, n.d., oil on canvas mounted on
paperboard, 18 × 25 cm, Collection of the Nationalmuseum,
Stockholm. Image: Erik Cornelius/Nationalmuseum. 95
7.3 Anna Boberg, From Svolvær Harbor, n.d., oil on paperboard,
16 × 20 cm, Collection of the Nationalmuseum, Stockholm. Image:
Erik Cornelius/ Nationalmuseum. 98
8.1 Izzet Ziya Bey, Ladies on the Seashore, 1923, oil on canvas,
33 × 41 cm, private collection. 106
8.2 Ramiz Gökçe, from a caricature strip titled “On the Painting
Exhibition,” Akbaba Journal, July 23, 1923, Istanbul. 108
8.3 Ibrahim Çallı, Women on an Outing in Bostancı Coast, c. 1918, oil
on canvas, 96 × 163 cm, private collection. 110
8.4 Ibrahim Çallı, Lovers in a Caique, n.d., oil on canvas, 150 × 182 cm,
Suna and Inan Kıraç Collection, Istanbul. 111
8.5 Müfde Kadri, Waiting, n.d., oil on canvas, 37 × 60 cm, Yapı Kredi
Collection, Istanbul. 113
9.1 Stanisław Wyspiański, View of the Kościuszko Mound from the
Artist’s Studio Window, February 20, 1905, pastel on paper mounted
to cardboard, 47.4 × 62.1 cm, National Museum, Warsaw, Poland. 118
9.2 Stanisław Wyspiański, View of the Kościuszko Mound from the
Artist’s Studio Window, January 27, 1905 (Afternoon), 1904, pastel
on paper, 92.5 × 61 cm, National Museum, Kraków, Poland. 123
Figures ix
9.3 Stanisław Wyspiański, View of the Kościuszko Mound from the
Artist’s Studio Window, December 13, 1904, pastel on paper,
22 × 46 cm, National Museum, Kraków, Poland. 127
10.1 Kuroda Seiki, A Nap, 1894, oil on canvas, 49.8 × 51 cm, Tokyo
National Museum. Image provided by Tokyo National Research
Institute for Cultural Properties. 133
10.2 Kuroda Seiki, Lakeside, 1897, oil on canvas, 69 × 84.7 cm, Tokyo
National Museum. Image provided by Tokyo National Research
Institute for Cultural Properties. 140
10.3 Kuroda Seiki, Lilies, 1909, oil on canvas, Artizon Museum, Ishibashi
Foundation, Tokyo (formerly Bridgestone Museum of Art). 142
11.1 Henry Moret, Fishing Boats on Groix Island (Anse de Groix), 1902,
oil on canvas, 50 × 62 cm, private collection. Image from Paintings by
the Impressionists: Collection of the Late Desmond Fitzgerald Sold by
Order of His Heirs (New York: American Art Galleries, 1927), 78. 146
11.2 Georges d’Espagnat, door panels for Durand-Ruel’s apartment, 35
rue de Rome in Paris, printed in Le Bulletin de vie artistique, no. 20
(1921): 529. 148
11.3 View of the Fitzgerald collection gallery in Brookline, Massachusetts.
Image from Paintings by the Impressionists: Collection of the
Late Desmond Fitzgerald Sold by Order of His Heirs (New York:
American Art Galleries, 1927), 134. 153
11.4 Childe Hassam, August Afternoon, Appledore, 1900, oil on canvas,
56.6 × 45.7 cm, private collection. Image from Paintings by the
Impressionists: Collection of the Late Desmond Fitzgerald Sold by
Order of His Heirs (New York: American Art Galleries, 1927), 130. 154
12.1 Jean-Baptiste Fortuné de Fournier, View of the Ladies’ Salon at
the Palace of Saint-Cloud, watercolor gouache, 30.5 × 45 cm,
Compiègne, musée national du château, France. Photo: © RMN-
Grand Palais (domaine de Compiègne)/Daniel Arnaudet 163
12.2 Frits Thaulow, An Old Factory under the Snow in Norway, 1892,
pastel on paper, 63 × 95 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Photo: © Musée d’Orsay, Dist. RMN-Grand Palais/Patrice Schmidt. 167
12.3 Johannes Grimelund, Fishing Huts at Svolvær, Lofoten, 1892, oil on
canvas, 46 × 55.5 cm, Musée d’Orsay, Paris, France.
Photo: © RMN-Grand Palais (musée d’Orsay)/image RMN-GP. 169
13.1 Anna Ancher, Sunlight in the Blue Room, 1891, oil on canvas,
65.2 × 58.8 cm, Skagens Museum. Photo: Skagens Kunstmuseer. 176
13.2 Theodor Philipsen, Late Autumn Day in the Jægersborg Deer Park,
North of Copenhagen, 1886, oil on canvas, 66.5 × 84.5 cm, Statens
Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark. Photo: Statens Museum
for Kunst, Copenhagen. 179
13.3 Anna Ancher, Daphnesvej, A Lane in Skagen’s East Town, 1915, oil on
plywood, 36.5 × 47 cm, Skagens Museum. Photo: Skagens Kunstmuseer. 184
13.4 Anna Ancher, Interior: Brøndum’s Annex, 1916, oil on wood,
44.4 × 37.9 cm, Skagens Museum. Photo: Skagens Kunstmuseer. 185
14.1 Joaquín Clausell, Burgeoning Springs in Autumn, c. 1910, oil on
canvas, 89.5 × 150.8 cm, Museo Nacional de Arte/INBAL, Mexico
City, Mexico. Photography: Museo Nacional de Arte/INBAL. 194
