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  • Fruits

    Two-Tiered Still Life with Fruit and Sunset Landscape by Severin Roesen, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art

    The still-life study of the colorful fruit in this painting is framed by a spectacular landscape scene. One of the most difficult aspects of a still-life to get right is making the objects at the front look like they are laying realistically on the table – Roesen does it well in this 19th century painting.

  • Monet in Cleveland

    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 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?
    Spotted during the set-up for the exhibition, did the man himself drop by?