John Rewald

He was known as a scholar of Impressionism, Post-Impressionism, Cézanne, Renoir, Pissarro, Seurat, and other French painters of the late 19th century.

He is famous not only for his solid scholarship, and the ground-breaking treatment of his subject, but also for the beauty and lucidity of his prose which, invariably sober and scholarly, never departing from the factual, rises at times to a culminating lyricism.

In 1983, Theodore Reff, Professor of Art History at Columbia University commented: "He is more responsible than anyone else for putting the study of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism on solid scholarly foundations.

"[2] Complementing his career as an academic, he served as one of the founding members of the board of directors of the International Foundation for Art Research.

[3][4][5] In a statistical overview derived from writings by and about John Rewald, OCLC/WorldCat encompasses roughly 600+ works in 1,400+ publications in 24 languages and 33,000+ library holdings.