Recommended Books/Publications

•   Recommended Books on Impressionism and the French Impressionists by Shelley Esaak
•  Mauclair, Camille; P. G. Konady, trans.

         The French Impressionists (1860-1900).         London: Duckworth & Co.; New York: E.P. Dutton & Co., 1903.

• Nochlin, Linda (ed.). Impressionism and Post-Impressionism 1874-1904: Sources and Documents.

         Englewood Cliffs: Prentice-Hall, 1966.
        ISBN-10: 0134520033
        ISBN-13: 978-0134520032

• Rewald, John. History of Impressionism. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1973 (4th rev. ed.).
  ISBN-10: 0810960354
  ISBN-13: 978-0810960350
  First published in 1946, this is the classic academic text on Impressionism. Nearly encyclopedic in scope, it is worth owning for its bibliography alone.
  

• White, Harrison C., & Cynthia A. White.
  Canvases and Careers: Institutional Change in the French Painting World.
  Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1993 (Reprint ed.).
  ISBN-10: 0226894878
  ISBN-13: 978-0226894874
  The original edition, published in 1965, was a groundbreaking survey covering how the Académie des Beaux Arts lost its power to individual French artists, artist groups, dealers and critics in 19th-century Paris. Still fresh today, the reprint edition includes an afterword containing more recent scholarship.