Clouds and Light: Impressionism in Holland

Impressionism may have originated in France, but artists in late

ninetienth and early twentienth century Netherlands quickly

made it their own. The genre’s vibrant colors and focus on light

and atmosphere were a perfect complement to the country’s

groundbreaking traditions of landscape painting and realism.

This exhibition catalog brings more than a hundred works by

nearly forty artists including Johan Barthold Jongkind, Vincent

van Gogh, Jacoba van Heemskerck, and Piet Mondrian. It traces

the birth of the Hague School, whose practitioners captured the

changing moods of light in the coastline’s vast, grey skies. And

it explores the Amsterdam Impressionists, whose cityscapes

offered realistic images of modern life. Alongside vibrant

reproductions of masterworks, a series of lively essays explore

a diverse array of topics, including Dutch landscape painting

within an international context; Dutch artist settlements and

communities; and iconography in Dutch impressionism.