Frontiers of Impressionism: Paintings from the Worcester Art Museum

November 2, 2025–March 1, 2026

Docent Gallery

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An impressionist oil painting in shades of blue and green of waterlilies drifting on water.
Claude Monet, Waterlilies, 1908, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, Museum purchase, 1910.26

Impressionist art is anything but tame and stagnant. Frontiers of Impressionism explores the evolution of the radical artistic movement that changed the course of art history. Visitors experience fifty-two stellar paintings from the Worcester Art Museum’s collection through the lens of more than thirty artists—American and European—including Claude Monet, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Camille Pissarro, Mary Cassatt, Childe Hassam, and John Singer Sargent. The exhibition chronicles the emergence of Impressionism in nineteenth-century France, its expansion to much of Europe and the United States, and the lasting changes these progressive artists have brought to the art world.

Highlights

A painting of a road by a beach on a sunny day, rendered in points of color.
Paul Signac, Golfe Juan, 1896, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, Gift from the Chapin and Mary Alexander Riley Collection, 1964.27
A painting of a dark-skinned woman, rendered in soft brushstrokes.
Pierre-Auguste Renoir, Arab Woman, 1882, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, 1935.8
Painting of two women carrying buckets of water.
John Singer Sargent, Venetian Water Carriers, 1880–1882, oil on canvas. Worcester Art Museum, museum purchase through the Sustaining Membership Fund, 1911.30

This exhibition was organized by the Worcester Art Museum.

This exhibition was organized with the support of The Museum Box.

Exhibition Sponsors

Lead Sponsor
Dr. Dawn F. Lipson

Supporting Sponsor
Joseph Dimino

Robert Lehman Foundation

Rubens Family Foundation

Associate Sponsors

7Crest Financial Partners

Jim and Vickie Durfee
Ally and Sanjay Hiranandani
McDonald Family
The Moore Family in memory of James C. Moore
Karen Petras
Janet Reed
The Rennert Family
Marion Swett Robinson
George and Barbara Segel

Contributing Sponsors
Anonymous
The Burns, Herrera, and Norris Families
J. Richard and Natalie Ciccone
Jane Colangelo
Michael Feinstein
Heidi Friederich
Nancy and Bill Holowka
Cecelia M. Horwitz
Nancy E. Hyman Charitable Foundation and Joel Reiser
Marcia Lowry
Ken McCurdy
The Lewis Norry Family

Fellow Sponsors
Mary Crowe
Joanna and Michael Grosodonia

LaBella Associates

Peter and Kathy Landers
Mary Ann Monley
Judith and Lawrence Ricotta

Rizzo and Rizzo Law Office

Alice K. and J. Michael Smith
Ingrid Stanlis
Elizabeth Stauderman
The Papadakos Family
Jane Ellen Parker

Memorial Art Gallery Endowed Fund Support
Dr. Robert Lewis Berg and Florence Foster Berg Fund
Robert A. and Maureen S. Dobies Endowment Fund
Joan Feinbloom Grand Gallery Endowment
Suressa H. Forbes Endowment
Margaret Davis Friedlich and Alan and Sylvia Davis Memorial Fund
Irving and Essie Germanow Fund
Herdle-Moore Fund
Grant Holcomb Fund
Kayser Fund
Langdon and Ellen Clay Fund