Between the Seige of Paris in 1870-71 and the deaths of Claude Monet and Mary Cassatt in 1926, one of the most revolutionary periods in the history of art and music was born. From the Barbizon School of painting and the World’s Fair of 1855 to the eigth and final Impressionist Exhibition of 1886 this powerful new artistic force had arrived in America.  Michael Lankester explores this prolific world of painting illuminated by copious expamples of music including that of Debussy, Ravel, Chaminade, Duparc, Delius and American composer Edward MacDowell, Charles Griffes, Mary Howe, George Chadwich and John Carpenter.
1. The Seige of Paris and The Barbizon School
2. The World’s Fair and The Salon Des Refuses
3. Argenteuil
4. Renoir and Sisly
5. Manet and Berthe Morisot
6. Degas and Pissarro
7. Cezanne and Childe Hassam
8. Mary Cassatt and John Twachtman
9. Monet