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Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo, NY (organizer) (September 15-November 1, 1970); Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH (November 20, 1970-January 10, 1971); The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (February 3-March 14, 1971).", "opening_date": "1970-09-15T04:00:00" }, { "id": 343654, "title": "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism", "description": "Monet's Years at Giverny: Beyond Impressionism. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (organizer) (co-organizer) (April 22-July 9, 1978); Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (co-organizer) (August 1-October 8, 1978).", "opening_date": "1978-04-22T05:00:00" }, { "id": 304401, "title": "The Monet Triptych: Water Lilies", "description": "The Monet Triptych: Water Lilies. 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(stock number a 6420), July 1956.", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": null, "sortorder": 3 }, { "description": "The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH", "citations": [], "footnotes": [], "date": "1960-", "sortorder": 4 } ], "find_spot": null, "related_works": [], "former_accession_numbers": [], "did_you_know": "Water lilies were a recurring theme in Monet's work; he painted around 250 water lily compositions.", "early_education_description": null, "artlens_description": null, "description": "A skilled horticulturalist as well as an artist, Claude Monet spent the last 30 years of his life painting the private garden he designed and helped cultivate at his home in Giverny in northern France. The resultant canvases are notable for their varied motifs, formats, and sizes. Monumental in scale, this rendering of his water lily pond focuses on the momentary effects of sunlight as it both penetrates and reflects off its shimmering surface. By zeroing in on the water and omitting its horizon and surrounding banks, Monet infers a limitless expanse\u2014a perception amplified by the painting\u2019s vast horizontal format that fills the viewer\u2019s field of vision.", "external_resources": { "wikidata": [ "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q60465880" ], "internet_archive": [ "https://archive.org/details/clevelandart-1960.81-water-lilies-agapant" ] }, "citations": [ { "citation": "City Art Museum of St. Louis. Claude Monet, a Loan Exhibition. 1957.", "page_number": "Reproduced: cat. no. 93", "url": null }, { "citation": "Sloane, J. C. \"The Art of Impressionism: From Romanticism to Avant-Garde.\" In Romantic Art. Hilton Kramer, ed. New York: Art Digest, Inc, 1958.", "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 129", "url": null }, { "citation": "Spaeth, Eloise. American Art Museums and Galleries: An Introduction to Looking. 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Severance Fund and an anonymous gift", "image_credit": null, "sketchfab_id": null, "sketchfab_url": null, "gallery_donor_text": "Nancy F. and Joseph P. Keithley Gallery", "athena_id": 136510, "creators": [ { "id": 1844, "description": "Claude Monet (French, 1840\u20131926)", "extent": null, "qualifier": null, "role": "artist", "biography": "Claude Monet spent his youth in Le Havre in Normandy, where his father worked as a wholesale grocer. By the age of sixteen, he had exhibited some of his caricatures in an art supply store, leading to his acquaintance with Boudin (q.v.). It was Boudin who first encouraged him to paint out of doors. In 1859 Monet traveled to Paris, where he saw Boudin's salon debut and met Constant Troyon (1810-1865). A year later he joined the Acad\u00e9mie Suisse, where he was introduced to Pissarro (q.v.), but his studies were interrupted in 1861 when he was drafted for a seven-year stint in the military. His family would pay for his release from military duties only if he gave up painting. Finding this unacceptable, Monet served for one year in Algeria before an early return to France to convalesce after a severe illness. In 1862 he met Jongkind (q.v.), another important influence on the young painter's development. Monet's father then allowed him to pursue his art career in Paris, where he entered the studio of the Swiss painter Charles Gleyre (1806-1874). He studied with Gleyre until 1864 and befriended Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bazille (1841-1870), Renoir (q.v.), and Sisley (q.v.), with whom he painted in the forest of Fontainebleau (D\u00e9jeuner sur l'herbe, 1865, two fragments in Mus\u00e9e d'Orsay, Paris). Monet first exhibited at the Salon of 1865 and would do so again in 1866, 1868, and 1880. In 1868 he shared a studio with Bazille and Renoir but was soon forced to leave Paris to escape his creditors. He took his mistress, Camille Doncieux, and their son, Jean, to F\u00e9camp, then \u00c9tretat, and finally Saint-Michel. There Renoir provided hospitality, and the two also painted at the boating and bathing center of La Grenouill\u00e8re on the Seine. In 1870 Monet married Camille and, to escape the Franco-Prussian War, left for London, where he remained for nine months and met Durand-Ruel, his first dealer. In the summer of 1871 he visited the Netherlands and then settled in Argenteuil, to the west of Paris. He converted a boat into a studio, as Daubigny (q.v.) had done before him, allowing him to explore different viewpoints for his landscapes. He assisted in the organization of the First Impressionist Exhibition in 1874, partly because Durand-Ruel's worsened business situation had prevented the dealer from buying his art. The following year he participated in the H\u00f4tel Drouot sale with Morisot (q.v.), Renoir, and Sisley. In 1878 Monet and his wife moved to V\u00e9theuil with the Hosched\u00e9s, who had previously commissioned some works. Camille died the following year, and, while Ernest Hosched\u00e9 spent most of his time in Paris trying to settle his precarious financial situation, Monet stayed behind with Ernest's wife, Alice. In 1881 he moved with her and her children to Poissy and within two years was living at Giverny, where he would remain for the rest of his life. He painted some of his famous scenes-the haystack and poplar series, for example- in 1890-91. Ernest Hosched\u00e9 died in 1891, and Monet married Alice the following year. At Giverny, Monet explored the themes of his garden and water lilies. He continued to travel, going to Norway in 1895, making three trips to London from 1899 through 1901, and taking Alice to Venice in 1908. 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