Impressionism Beyond Paris: A Global Perspective

“National Identities and the Politics of Dislocation: Another Exhibition in Paris, 1874”
Nikki Georgopulos, University of British Columbia

This talk will introduce a different exhibition in Paris in 1874. Staged simultaneously with both the Salon and the First Impressionist Exhibition, the Exhibition in Honor of Alsace-Lorrainians Profiting the Colonization of Algeria was held to raise funds for relocating displaced Alsace-Lorrainians to French-colonized Algeria. This little-studied exhibition is a lens through which to understand how the art worlds reflected shifting national identities in a moment of great geopolitical fluctuation.

“Loïs Mailou Jones’s French Landscapes: Routes towards Impressionism”
Kelly-Christina Grant, Université Paris-Nanterre

Expanding on the monograph Lois Mailou Jones: Peintures,1937–1951 published in 1952 in France, this talk will discuss the significance of African American artist Loïs Mailou Jones’s mobilities in the Atlantic world and her engagement with the aesthetics of French Impressionism.

“Francisco Oller, Camille Pissarro, and Impressionism in the Caribbean”
Natalia Ángeles Vieyra, National Gallery of Art

Although the term “impressionism” often evokes images of lively Parisian cafés and grand boulevards, impressionist colleagues Camille Pissarro (b. St. Thomas, 1830) and Francisco Oller (b. Puerto Rico, 1833) possessed strong familial, professional, and personal connections to the Caribbean. This lecture explores the impact of their Caribbean roots on their respective artistic trajectories, examining how the aesthetics and ideology of French impressionism were transmitted across the Atlantic as a result of their creative exchange.

André Dombrowski, University of Pennsylvania
Moderator, panel discussion

Dombrowski is the Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Associate Professor of 19th Century European Art in History of Art at the University of Pennsylvania and author of Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time (2024).