WILLIAMSTOWN - Pierre-Auguste Renoir always seemed to have a lighter-than-air touch. Sometimes too light. Even though he’s one of the most famous French Impressionist painters, some of his ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the leaders of the Impressionist school of painting, established in 1874 by a group of French artists, whose loose brushwork and brightly colored paints created a ...

At the Clark Art Institute, when you tire of Renoir’s nudes, look at Ida Ten Eyck O’Keeffe’s quietly insistent art, some of which survived long enough to be rediscovered. By Roberta Smith WILLIAMSTOWN ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Jane Levere is a New York-based freelance writer covering the arts. The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, home to the world’s ...

Henri Matisse, "The Joy of Life" (1905–6), oil on canvas (photo Judith Stein/Hyperallergic) PHILADELPHIA — Matisse & Renoir: New Encounters at the Barnes is the result of a carpe diem moment for ...

Enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, in the studio of Charles Gleyre, where he met artists such as Claude Monet, Alfred Sisely, and Jean Frederic Bazille Began to exhibit with a group of ...

Two paintings by Auguste Renoir and Alfred Sisley were restituted to eleven beneficiaries of the Jewish art dealer Grégoire Schusterman at a ceremony attended by France’s culture minister Rachida Dati ...

It's not often that a parent and child become masters of two different art forms, but an exhibition at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia proves it's possible: Renoir: Father and Son explores the ...