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luminist

  • a word derived from luminism.
    luminism
    noun
    a style of landscape painting practiced by some mid-19th-century American artists, especially of the Hudson River School, that emphasized meticulously crafted realism and a technically precise rendering of atmosphere and of the effects produced by direct and reflected light.

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“River Crossings” is the project of the luminist painter Stephen Hannock, whose contemporary style owes much to the Hudson River School’s monumental studio work.

From New York Times ● May 28, 2015

They are collectively known generally as impressionists, though the word "plein-airist" - luminist - has been chosen sometimes by them and by their admirers.

From The Galleries of the Exposition by Eugen Neuhaus

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