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.
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Godfather of the Modern?
August 13, 2009
Cézanne and Beyond
an exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, February 26–May 17, 2009
Cézanne und die Moderne an exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler, Riehen bei Basel, Switzerland, October 10, 1999–January 9, 2000
Cézanne and the Dawn of Modern Art
an exhibition at the Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, September 18, 2004–January 16, 2005
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Cunning Claude Monet
August 16, 2007
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
Monet in Normandy
Catalog of the exhibition by Heather Lemonedes, Lynn Federle Orr, and David Steel, with essays by Richard Brettell
Claude Monet (1840–1926): A Tribute to Daniel Wildenstein and Katia Granoff Catalog of the exhibition edited by Joseph Baillio
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Unparallel Lives
June 8, 2006
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
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Art Under Siege
March 13, 2003
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
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An Anarchist’s Art
December 20, 2001
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
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Spirits on Canvas
June 21, 2001
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
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Goodbye to All That
November 4, 1999
Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
by T.J. Clark
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Monet Our Contemporary
November 19, 1998
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
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Renoir the Radical
November 20, 1997
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
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Degas & Women
April 18, 1996
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
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Impressionists on Stage
November 2, 1995
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 18401926 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 18741914 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
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Art and ‘Accuracy’
August 12, 1993
Beyond Impressionism: The Naturalist Impulse by Gabriel P. Weisberg
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Impressionism
November 23, 1989
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Mrs. Wallace’s Subsidy
December 20, 1984
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Monet’s Turf
October 11, 1984
Monet
by Robert Gordon, by Andrew Forge