The American Impressionist Lowell Birge Harrison (1824 – 1929) trained with some of the best artists of his time and became an influential teacher and co-founder of the Art Students League Summer School in Woodstock, New York. He was an inspirational teacher and influential writer and was also a dedicated landscape artist in his own right. Birge Harrison admired the work of the French Impressionists but expressed reservations about their use of intense colors, choosing instead to work with soft lighting and muted colors for a quieter, evocative style which he applied to great atmospheric effect in his many paintings of New York in early 20^th century.