Impressionists on the Water

Claude Monet, The Studio Boat 1874

Impressionists on the Water seems a continuation of the Fine Arts Museum’s successful exhibits of Impressionist and Post-Impressionist and like other institutions in the City, coincides with the America’s Cup competition. The exhibit documents how the significant role boating and sailing, which emerged as a middle-class leisure activity in France in the mid nineteenth century, the lives of French Impressionists and Post-Impressionists. Not as inspiring as its previous Impressionist exhibits it has a number Monet and Tolouse-Latrec’s wonderful work. I discovered Henri Riviere’s Night at Sea, a mesmerizing lithograph of blue sea and sky, and Ludovic Napoleon Lepic’s Boats on the Beach at Berch, which has both abstract and representational elements. 

Edouard Vuillard The Boatman 1897