Gallery | John Pierce Barnes’s Impressionistic Paintings

Recently, John Pierce Barnes’s vibrant impressionistic paintings—among them 24 small pastels—were uncovered, revealing a window into the intriguing story of the artist as a young man and the often overlooked shift from Impressionism to Modernism that took place in early 20th-century American art. Read more about John Pierce Barnes and his landscape paintings in the June 2012 issue of Pastel Journal, and enjoy a web-exclusive gallery of his work below.