A Summer Afternoon
Painting
WMAI.2024.28
Oil on canvas
Wilson Henry Irvine
circa 1915
Collection Highlights
The Museum’s collection celebrates American Impressionism from the 1880s to the 1920s, showcasing artists who captured the movement’s signature interplay of light, color, and atmosphere. With a focus on New England painters, the collection includes artworks by renowned artists such as Childe Hassam and John Singer Sargent, alongside paintings by lesser-known talents who merit greater recognition. Thoughtfully curated, these works reveal how American artists embraced and reimagined Impressionism, forging a distinctively American interpretation of the movement.