Presents both the artists and the movement at their respective peaks. Among the aritsts represented are Mary Cassatt, William Merritt Chase, Frank Weston Benson, Frederick Frieseke, Childe Hassam, Ernest Lawson, Gari Melchers, Theodore Robinson, John Twachtman and Julian Alden Weir. The paintings are covered by in depth examinations of the artists. Also discussed are the various regional movements within American Impressionism - from the rustic towns of Old Lyme, New Hope and Cragsmore to artist colonies across the Atlantic in Giverny and Grez in France. Impressionism exhibition at the Hechscher Museum of American Art in Huntington, New York.