Change of the Seasons exercise

It was the French Impressionists who first advocated painting en Plein Air, meaning outdoors. With the advent of paint in tubes, their grinding of their own paints halted. Their folding easels and supplies became portable and could be easily taken into the forest or up hillsides.
The outdoors' naturally diffused light and atmosphere allowed them to stand or sit and paint the changing seasons of the landscapes and pastoral settings of the time.  Left to right shows spring to winter.
In the top painting, Winslow Homer, has painted other painters as they, as well, are painting en Plein Air.

Represented artists:  Karen Marguliss, Edmund Tarbell, Wm Richards, Alfred Sisley, Wm Sontag, Albert Rigolot, Glendenning, Barbara Lussier, Marilyn Fairman, Thomas Hill, Joaquin Sorolla, Karen Winters, Caspar Friedriech, Jeanne MacKenzie, Alfred Bricker, Kay Franklin, C. Monet (The Magpie)