Outdoor dining is the necessary rage in 2020, and Pierre-Auguste Renoir’s sumptuous The Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) is one of the most idyllic images of its charms. Now in the Phillips ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir's famed painting "Luncheon of the Boating Party" is the focus of a new exhibit in Washington, D.C. Pierre-Auguste Renoir / Google Cultural Institute In Pierre-Auguste Renoir's ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Such a beginning to this book! It is France in the summer of 1880, and Pierre Auguste Renoir is hurtling down a hill on a steam-cycle toward the village of ...

Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) by Pierre-Auguste Renoir Image courtesy of the Phillips Collection A while back I wrote a post about what the diners in Pierre Auguste Renoir’s Luncheon of the ...

In July 1923,Duncan Phillips made his most ambitious acquisition to date for the burgeoning modern art collection, the Phillips Memorial Gallery, he had opened here just 18 months earlier.

In the summer of 1880, on a cafe terrace overlooking the River Seine, Pierre-Auguste Renoir stands before his easel, paintbrush in hand, focusing on 14 live models whose images he intends to render so ...

In a town full of museums, the Phillips Collection has always been Washington, D.C.'s most intimate, personal home for paintings. Now about 60 of its European masterworks -- by Renoir, Van Gogh, ...

Pierre-Auguste Renoir was fed up with herding people to sit for his ambitious tableau of revelers on a restaurant balcony. “I’m obliged to go on working on this ...

Phillips Collection curator Eliza Rathbone says Renoir was "at the height of his powers" when in he painted Luncheon of the Boating Party. In 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, age 41, wrote to a friend ...

In 1880, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, age 41, wrote to a friend that he was in a riverside town near Paris painting oarsmen. He'd been "itching" to do it for a long time: "I'm not getting any younger," he ...