The National Gallery (UK)
The National Gallery: The Beginner's Guide to Impressionism
The National Gallery: The Beginner's Guide to Impressionism
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Impressionism
A large collection of artists who were considered Impressionists. Click on the links to get information on the artists and see examples of their paintings.
National Gallery of Art
National Gallery of Art: Impressionism
The site from the National Gallery of Art contains a short overview of the Impressionist movement - several works are featured, with audio analysis of the paintings. More extensive galleries of Edouard Manet and Claude Monet are linked.
Other
Art Gallery of New South Wales: Create Your Own Impressionist Painting
Think you can paint like Monet? Choose from four of his paintings and see if you can match his style by copying one of his works with a virtual paint program.
Museum of Modern Art
Mo Ma: Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro (1865 85)
Exhibition brings together the work of two masters of the early modern period, Cezanne and Pissarro. Compares and contrasts their styles, choices of subject, techniques, and development, with interesting thematic pathways into the...
ArtLex
Art Lex: Impressionism
This site contains a paragraph long summary of impressionism. Page describes the painters who were well known in association with the era, and provides links to pictures of their paintings.
Alabama Learning Exchange
Alex: Oral Presentations on French Impressionism
Students research and present an artist from the period of French Impressionism. Presentations include a biography and examples of the artist's work. After the presentations, students produce sidewalk chalk paintings.
Boston College
Boston College: Paintings of Claude Monet
This site features thumbnail images of various Impressionist of Claude Monet paintings.
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art: Manet and the Sea
An impressive investigation into one artist's lifetime fascination with the sea. Find information on the seascape paintings of French artist Edouard Manet and a gallery of Manet's at-sea and seaside paintings where you can hear and read...
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: The Masquerade Dress
A picture of the painting "The Masquerade Dress" with general information about it. Also includes detailed biographical info about the painter, Robert Henri.
Quia
Quia: Art Movements Impressionism
Ten questions for students to answer by going on a scavenger hunt through various museum websites.
ibiblio
Ibiblio: Web Museum: Edouard Manet
ibiblio.org provides a short biography of French impressionist painter Manet, the impact of his work, and many samples of his paintings.
Boston College
Boston College: Examples of Neo Impressionist Paintings
This site contains reproductions of neo-impressionistic paintings by Seurat, Signac, and Lude.
Ministerio de Educación (Spain)
Ministerio De Educacion: El Impresionismo
This is a multimedia resource which addresses the study of Impressionism. The combination of text and images makes this site a very useful tool to learn the evolution of this style of painting.
Other
American Impressionist Selections
A great list provided of American Impressionist artists and their exhibits. A visual site of artist's paintings of impressionism style.
The National Gallery (UK)
National Gallery, London: Teacher's Notes Degas
These notes provide useful background information about the featured painting 'Beach Scene' and the artist as well as some suggestions on using the painting in the primary classroom, ideas for activities and cross-curricular links.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Pierre Auguste Renoir
This online gallery provides a biographical note about Renoir (1841-1919) and features clickable thumbnails to view over 200 paintings.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Alfred Sisley
Magnificent site - Online gallery has over 70 paintings by Sisley - Very comprehensive - a must see!
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Claude Monet
Online gallery has over 180 paintings by Monet (1840-1926 CE) Includes concise biography.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Berthe Morisot
Online gallery has over 20 paintings by Morisot (1841-1895 CE) Includes concise biography.
Olga, Helen, Yuri and Sergey Mataev
Olga's Gallery: Paul Cezanne
Online gallery has over 100 paintings by Cezanne (1839-1906 CE) Includes concise biography.
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Metropolitan Museum of Art: Seated Peasant
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art the impressionist painting "From the Metropolitan Museum of Art the impressionist painting "Seated Peasant" by Paul Cezanne, is described in a short paragraph and presented with a large-format image.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Mary Cassatt
This presentation includes an index of paintings by Mary Cassatt along with a link to her biography.
CGFA
Carol Gerten Fine Arts: Edgar Degas
This presentation from the Carson-Janson Fine Art Association provides a list of Degas paintings in thumbnail format. Includes a link to his biography.