From Giverny to Connecticut
American Impressionism
Americans who learned the new painting in France, many of them at Giverny, and brought it home to Connecticut and New York in the 1880s and 1890s. Robinson’s rooftops of Giverny seen from the hill and his yachts at low tide, Twachtman’s white water at Horseneck Falls and the river flats at Arques-la-Bataille, Weir’s red iron bridge through the trees, his mill town under a smoking chimney, and his wife and daughter in white on a summer afternoon with a guitar.
As a puzzle
Light and broken colour, softer than the French. The bridge, the mill and the boats at low tide give you shapes to start from; the waterfalls and the grassy hillsides are a slow tumble of greens and whites, and the women in white are mostly white. Sort by colour first, and keep the count moderate for the waterfalls.
A good size here: 50–200 pieces.
Painters here: J. Alden Weir
Subjects here: LandscapesRivers and LakesThe SeaPortraits
16 pictures, pick one to build
Low Tide, Riverside Yacht Club Theodore Robinson, 1894 
Horseneck Falls John Henry Twachtman, ca. 1889–1900 
Idle Hours Julian Alden Weir, 1888 
A Bird's-Eye View Theodore Robinson, 1889 
Eleanor Hardy Bunker Dennis Miller Bunker, 1890 
Banks of the Loing William Lamb Picknell, ca. 1894–97 
Arques-la-Bataille John Henry Twachtman, ca. 1884 
Anna Dwight Weir Reading a Letter Julian Alden Weir, ca. 1890 
The Old Mill (Vieux Moulin) Theodore Robinson, ca. 1892 
Waterfall John Henry Twachtman, ca. 1889–91 
Evening at the Lock, Napanoch, New York Theodore Robinson, 1893 
The Red Bridge Julian Alden Weir, 1895 
The Factory Village Julian Alden Weir, 1897 
Fruit Julian Alden Weir, ca. 1888 
The Green Bodice Julian Alden Weir, by 1898 
Boats Julian Alden Weir