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Flower Market, Tokyo by Robert Frederick Blum, c. 1892.
Blum was born in Cincinnati where he worked for a lithographer before he began to take classes in drawing. He had a strong interest in all things Japanese as did many other artists at the time such as Whistler and Monet. Blum's preferred medium was pastels and he and W.M. Chase founded the Society of Painters in Pastel in New York.
Houses of Parliament, London, 1905 by Claude Monet, Musee Marmottan, Paris.
Another of Monet's views of Parliament. His goal was to paint the same thing in different light, which in turn would make a different impression, much darker, yet recognizable.
Houses of Parliament, London, Sun Breaking Through the Fog, 1904 by Claude Monet, Musee d'Orsay,Paris.
Monet, like Turner recorded the London Parliament buildings but his was a study of the same building at different times of the day.
The Water-Lily Pond by Claude Monet, National Gallery London.
Monet is the most famous of the 19th century group of artists known as the Impressionists. The effect of the light upon the pond that Monet sought to capture was accomplished by using millions of small brush strokes. The water garden is part of his home at Giverny and he built it so he could paint the same scene at all the different times of the day, in order to capture all of the different effects of the light.
The Poisoned Cup (aka "Carrying a Peacock") by John Dawson-Watson, 1869
Another artist discovered via Pinterest.
John Dawson-Watson was a British Impressionist whose early work seems very similar to John Everett Millais of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood fame. The rich colors and attention to detail found in this work becomes looser and more pastel after he studies Impressionism at Monet's home in Giverny.
The Nelson-Atkins and the St. Louis Art Museum have loaned their Waterlilies by Monet to the CMA so that the three images could be joined together again.
The Cleveland Museum of Art is hosting an exhibition entitled Painting the Modern Garden: Monet to Matisse now through January 5, 2016. The exhibition, organized by CMA and the Royal Academy of Arts in London, looks at the role of gardens to artists such as Claude Monet, who was also a horticulturist.
Spotted during the set-up for the exhibition, did the man himself drop by?
