French1834–1917
Edgar Degas
A founder of the Impressionist exhibitions who preferred to call himself a Realist. He painted modern Paris, its performers, workers and people at leisure, often cut off at odd angles as if seen in passing.
A life in paintings
- 1834Born
- 1841Paint in tubes
The collapsible metal paint tube is patented, making it practical to paint outdoors.
- 1854Japan opens its ports
A treaty with the United States ends more than two centuries of Japanese seclusion. Within a few years Japanese prints are reaching the West, where their flat colour and bold cropping change how painters compose.
- 1865
- 1870Franco-Prussian War
War breaks out. Degas joins the National Guard to defend Paris.
- 1874The first Impressionist exhibition
A group of painters show their work independently of the Salon. A critic mocks them as ‘Impressionists’ and the name sticks.
- 1877Worked with Mary CassattParis
Degas invited Cassatt to exhibit with the Impressionists. Their studios were a five-minute walk apart, he often looked in to give her advice, and she frequently posed for him.
Source: Wikipedia - 1882
- 1886The last Impressionist exhibition
Seurat shows a huge picture made of dots, and the group splits over it.
- 1917Died
Circles
Exhibition · New York, Chicago, Boston · 1913
Armory Show (1913)
The International Exhibition of Modern Art that introduced European modern art to American audiences, shown in New York, Chicago and Boston in 1913. Members here are artists whose work was included, living or not.
- Alfred Sisley
- Amadeo de Souza-Cardoso
- André Derain
- Camille Pissarro
- Childe Hassam
- Claude Monet
- Édouard Manet
- Edvard Munch
- Edward Hopper
- Ernst Ludwig Kirchner
- Ferdinand Hodler
- Fernand Léger
- George Wesley Bellows
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Courbet
- Henri Matisse
- Henri Rousseau
- Henri-Edmond Cross
- Joseph Stella
- Marsden Hartley
- Mary Cassatt
- Maurice Prendergast
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir
- Robert Delaunay
- Vincent van Gogh
- Wassily Kandinsky
- William Glackens
Exhibition · Paris · 1874
Impressionist exhibitions
The eight independent group shows, 1874-1886. Pissarro alone showed at all eight; Cassatt at four; Renoir 1874, 1876, 1877, 1882; Seurat and Signac only at the 8th (1886). Manet never exhibited with them.
- Alfred Sisley
- Camille Pissarro
- Claude Monet
- Georges Seurat
- Gustave Caillebotte
- Mary Cassatt
- Paul Cézanne
- Paul Signac
- Pierre-Auguste Renoir