In the 1860s and ’70s, France underwent a cultural sea change. New steamships and railroads transformed sleepy coastal towns into busy resorts with beach clubs and casinos. Parisians discovered what ...

Until Charles François Daubigny, French landscape painting was largely an indoor sport. From the 1850s, the painter started a habit of working on his canvases just about anywhere but in a traditional ...

It comes as something of a surprise to learn that the exhibition devoted to the English painter J.M.W. Turner (1775-1851) It comes as something of a surprise to learn that the exhibition devoted to ...

From Claude Monet’s transportive water lilies series to J.W.M. Turner’s dramatic marine paintings to David Hockey’s colorful LA swimming pools, artists have always been attracted to the challenge of ...

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The book contains 30 black-and-white line illustrations of the paintings by the French artist and a founder of French Impressionist painting, Oscar-Claude Monet (1840-1926). With this book, artists of ...

Henry Goodman says: This painting really conveys Monet’s passionate need and determination to capture Nature in the moment. I admire the fact that he made many different studies of the same view in ...