To make the pond for his garden at Giverny, Monet diverted water from a nearby river despite the objections of local farmers. His famed water lilies required the careful attention of up to six ...

Claude Monet, one of the world's most famous impressionists, lived and painted many of these subjects in his home in Giverny. Today, Monet fans can tour his excellently preserved home, studio and ...

In his middle age Monet had moved to Giverny, with its famous gardens in the countryside to the northwest of Paris. He had a large family -- two children with first wife, Camille, who had died in 1879 ...

Monet’s ‘The Water Lily Pond’ is a series of paintings instead of a single work of art, and each one complements the other perfectly. It is a painting of his own garden in Giverny ...

The Water-Lily Pond – completed in 1899 – is of Monet’s water garden in Giverny, France, which became his main obsession during his later career. Twelve of the gallery’s partners hosted a ...

It was not very different in 1874 when the movement was launched in France. Artists such as Monet, Manet and Courbet questioned the long-established hierarchy of subject matter. They believed that ...

The New Britain Museum of American Art presents special exhibition Blue Grass, Green Skies: American Impressionism and Realism from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from January 24 through May 18, ...