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I’m not sure “Romantic Realist” is the tagline I would assign to Daniel Garber, but I think it’s possibly more accurate than “Pensylvania Impressionist”, the category to which he is usually assigned. Daniel Garber: Romatic Realist is the name of a retrospective exhibition, displayed jointly at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, here in…

Pennsylvania is a beautiful state. It’s lush and green in the summer, bursting with color in the fall and in winter reveals gracefully rolling hills and mountains laced with the traceries of stands of deciduous forest. Eastern Pennsylvania in particular, in the areas along the Brandywine Creek and Delaware River, has inspired two schools of…

As much as I admire the original French Impressionists, I’m frequently even more drawn to the work of the American Impressionists, who, though not part of a formal movement, took elements of the impressionist approach and applied them to their own unique vision, resulting in a wonderful variety of painterly realism. A subset of American…

George William Sotter was one of the group of painters working in and around New Hope, Pennsylvania in the early 20th century, who are referred to as the Pennsylvania Impressionists. Along with Daniel Garber and Edward Redfield, Sotter is one of my favorites of the group. Sotter painted rural scenes in Bucks County PA, and…

Here in southeastern Pennsylvania, we don’t have the harshest winters — certainly not like Minnesota or Maine or even northern New York State — but we do have winter; and never have Pennsylvania’s winters been more beautifully celebrated than by the Pennsylvania Impressionists, a group painters who formed an art colony in and around New…