'Impressionist Line' at Clark shows masters at work

If you think impressionism means luminous water lilies, quaint evenings in Paris and the welcoming French countryside, "The Impressionist Line" exhibition of artworks on paper is worthy confirmation. The Clark has pulled 39 works from its collection, mostly drawings and prints, to remind us that these artists, regardless of medium, were responding to the everyday rituals in cafés, along boulevards and overlooking rolling fields and placid shorelines.

To be sure, it was precisely how ordinary life became such extraordinary art that defines this early modernist surge of original talent. The show reminds us these artists were not just painters.