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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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