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Article: American Impressionism in Art
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American Impressionism in Art
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An Artist
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s Paradise.
Europe beckoned to American artists of the late nineteenth century. The painter William Merritt Chase, originally from Indiana, proclaimed that he would
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rather go to Europe than go to heaven
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a sentiment shared by many in his generation. The art studios of Munich, London, Antwerp, Rome, and above all Paris swarmed with young Americans during the latter decades of the century. Some Americans
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the painters James McNeill Whistler in England, Mary Cassatt in France
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settled overseas more or less permanently. Others studied abroad and then returned to the United States to teach, to paint, ...