Clouds and Light

Impressionism may have originated in France, but artists in lateninetienth and early twentienth century Netherlands quicklymade it their own. The genre’s vibrant colors and focus on lightand atmosphere were a perfect complement to the country’sgroundbreaking traditions of landscape painting and realism.This exhibition catalog brings more than a hundred works bynearly forty artists including Johan Barthold Jongkind, Vincentvan Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Piet Mondrian. It tracesthe birth of the Hague School, whose practitioners captured thechanging moods of light in the coastline’s vast, grey skies. Andit explores the Amsterdam Impressionists, whose cityscapesoffered realistic images of modern life. Alongside vibrantreproductions of masterworks, a series of lively essays explorea diverse array of topics, including Dutch landscape paintingwithin an international context; Dutch artist settlements andcommunities; and iconography in Dutch impressionism.