Tour: American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s

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Since the development of the oil technique during the early 1400s, the equipment and chemicals necessary for painting were simply too cumbersome to remove them easily from artists' studios. By the late 1700s, some painters did venture outdoors to sketch in oils, but their refreshing, small-scale works were normally considered mere training exercises. The ability to create finished canvases away from the studio hinged on a British patent granted to John Rand, an American artist-scientist.

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Captions

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1	Frank Weston Benson, Margaret ("Gretchen") Strong, c. 1909
2	William Merritt Chase, A Friendly Call, 1895
3	Childe Hassam, Allies Day, May 1917, 1917
4	Willard Leroy Metcalf, Midsummer Twilight, c. 1890
5	Maurice Brazil Prendergast, Salem Cove, 1916
6	Edmund Charles Tarbell, Mother and Mary, 1922
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7	John Henry Twachtman, Winter Harmony, c. 1890/1900