Robert L. Herbert
Robert L. Herbert, after a long career at Yale, is now Andrew W. Mellon Professor Emeritus of Humanities at Mount Holyoke. He is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the American Philosophical Society, and has been named Officier dans l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Government. Among his books are Impressionism: Art, Leisure and Parisian Society, Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts, and Seurat: Drawings and Paintings. His most recent book is Seurat and the Making of “La Grande Jatte.”
From the Review
August 16, 2007: Cunning Claude Monet
The Unknown Monet: Pastels and Drawings Catalog of the exhibition by James A. Ganz and Richard Kendall
Claude Monet and His Posterity Catalog of the exhibition by Serge Lemoine, Shuji Takashina, Akiko Mabuchi, and Yusuka Minami
Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff Catalog of the exhibition edited by Joseph Baillio
Monet in Normandy Catalog of the exhibition by Heather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, with essays by Richard Brettell
June 8, 2006: Unparallel Lives
The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King
Ernest Meissonier: Master in His Genre by Constance Cain Hungerford
March 13, 2003: Art Under Siege
Defeated Flesh: Medicine, Welfare, and Warfare in the Making of Modern France by Bertrand Taithe
Art, War and Revolution in France, 1870–1871: Myth, Reportage and Reality by John Milner
Paris in Despair: Art and Everyday Life under Siege (1870–71) by Hollis Clayson
December 20, 2001: An Anarchist's Art
Signac, 1863–1935 catalog of the exhibition by Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon, Anne Distel, John Leighton, and Susan Alyson Stein
Signac: Catalogue raisonné de l'oeuvre peint by Françoise Cachin, with Marina Ferretti-Bocquillon
Signac et la libération de la couleur: De Matisse à Mondrian edited by Erich Franz
June 21, 2001: Spirits on Canvas
Technique and Meaning in the Paintings of Paul Gauguin Vojtech Jirat-Wasiutynski and H. Travers Newton Jr.
Van Gogh and Gauguin: The Search for Sacred Art Debora Silverman
November 4, 1999: Goodbye to All That
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism by T.J. Clark
November 19, 1998: Monet Our Contemporary
Monet in the 20th Century 20-December 27, 1998, and the Royal Academy of Arts, London, January 23-April 18, 1999 an exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September
Monet in the 20th Century Catalog of the exhibition by Paul Hayes Tucker, with George T.M. Shackelford, by MaryAnne Stevens, and essays by Romy Golan, by John House, by Michael Leja
November 20, 1997: Renoir the Radical
Renoir's Portraits: Impressions of an Age 27-September 14, 1997; the Art Institute of Chicago, October 17, 1997-January 4, 1998; and the Kimbell Art Museum, Fort Worth, February 8-April 26, 1998. exhibition at the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, June, Catalog of the exhibition by Colin B. Bailey, with the assistance of John B. Collins, and with essays by Linda Nochlin, by Anne Distel
April 18, 1996: Degas & Women
The Spectacular Body: Science, Method and Meaning in the Work of Degas by Anthea Callen
Painted Love: Prostitution in French Art of the Impressionist Era by Hollis Clayson
Odd Man Out: Readings of the Work and Reputation of Edgar Degas by Carol Armstrong
November 2, 1995: Impressionists on Stage
Landscapes of France: Impressionism and its Rivals 1995 an exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London, May 18 to August 28,
Impressions of France: Monet, Renoir, Pissarro, and their Rivals October 4, 1995 to January 14, 1996. the same exhibition, retitled, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,, Catalog of the exhibitions by John House, with contributions from Ann Dumas, by Jane Mayo Roos, by James F. McMillan
Claude Monet 1840–1926 26, 1995 an exhibition at the Art Institute of Chicago, July 22 to November, Catalog of the exhibition by Charles F. Stuckey, with the assistance of Sophia Shaw
Monet to Matisse: Landscape Painting in France 1874–1914 Edinburgh an exhibition held in 1994 at the National Gallery of Scotland,, Catalog of the exhibition by Richard Thomson, with an essay by Michael Clarke
August 12, 1993: Art and 'Accuracy'
Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse by Gabriel P. Weisberg
November 23, 1989: Impressionism (letter)
December 20, 1984: Mrs. Wallace's Subsidy (letter)
October 11, 1984: Monet's Turf
Monet by Robert Gordon, by Andrew Forge
From New York Review Books
 | Renoir, My Father In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. |
Books by Robert L. Herbert
From Millet to Leger: Essays in Social Art History (2002)
Nature's Workshop: Renoir's Writings on the Decorative Arts (2000)
Monet on the Normandy Coast: Tourism and Painting, 1867-1886 (1994)
Georges Seurat, 1859-1891 (1991)
Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society (1988)
Jean-Francois Millet: [exhibition], Hayward Gallery, 22 January-7 March 1976 (1976)
David, Voltaire, "Brutus", and the French Revolution: An Essay in Art and Politics (1972)