Henri-Edmond Cross (; 20 May 1856 – 16 May 1910), born Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix (), was a French painter and printmaker. He is most acclaimed as a master of Neo-Impressionism and he played an important role in shaping the second phase of that movement. He was a significant influence on Henri Matisse and many other artists. His work was instrumental in the development of Fauvism.

Background and education

Henri-Edmond-Joseph Delacroix was born in Douai,

  • Allen Memorial Art Museum (Oberlin College, Ohio)
  • Art Institute of Chicago
  • Barnes Foundation (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
  • Block Museum of Art (Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois)
  • Brooklyn Museum (New York City)
  • Chrysler Museum of Art
  • Cleveland Museum of Art
  • Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
  • Finnish National Gallery (Helsinki, Finland)
  • Harvard University Art Museums
  • Hermitage Museum (Saint Petersburg, Russia)
  • Honolulu Museum of Art
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • Kröller-Müller Museum
  • Kunstmuseum Basel (Switzerland)
  • Los Angeles County Museum of Art
  • Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City)
  • Museum Barberini (Potsdam, Germany)
  • Museum of Grenoble (Grenoble, France)
  • Musée d'Orsay (Paris)
  • Musée Malraux (Le Havre, France)
  • Musée Richard Anacréon (Granville, France)
  • Museum of Modern Art (New York City)
  • National Gallery of Art (Washington D.C.)
  • New Art Gallery (Walsall, England)
  • Statens Museum for Kunst (National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen)
  • Tel Aviv Museum of Art
  • Thyssen-Bornemisza Museum (Madrid)
  • Wallraf-Richartz-Museum (Cologne, Germany)

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Further reading

  • Baligand, Françoise, Raphaël Dupouy, and Claire Maingon, Henri-Edmond Cross: Etudes et oeuvres sur papier, Le Lavandou, Lalan, 2006.
  • Cross's twenty-two page Sketchbook from 1897, in the Harvard Art Museums
  • Signac, 1863–1935, a fully digitized exhibition catalog from The Metropolitan Museum of Art Libraries, which contains material on Cross (see index)