In 1902, during the young American’s first visit to Paris, the Impressionists were still at the height of their influence, and it was natural that he should have entered heartily into their methods. Men like Monet and Pissarro, who were absorbed in the inter-relation of light and color, appealed to his imagination and for a time he painted in their manner. And when he, like others among the moderns, saw and accepted the revolutionizing ideas which Cezanne was proclaiming on every canvas, he took with him into the new field …
For a few fortunate years or decades the output of considerable art is great. Suddenly it ceases; or slowly it dwindles: a movement has exhausted itself. How far a movement is made by the fortuitous synchronisation of a number of good artists, and how far the artists are helped to the creation of significant form by the pervasion of some underlying spirit of the age, is a question that can never be decided beyond cavil. But however the credit is to be apportioned--and I suspect it should be divided about …
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Made in the nineteenth century, like Madame Cézanne (Hortense Fiquet, 1850–1922) in a Red Dress.