Near the end of “Monet/Mitchell: Painting the French Landscape,” three works by Monet, “Water Lilies” (1917-19) and two titled “The Japanese Bridge” (1918-24), display an unusual side of the great ...
In 1914, Claude Monet was having a bad year. His beloved wife had died, cataracts clouded his vision, toothache dogged him, and Europe had plunged headlong into war. Soon, his son would be stationed ...
Claude Monet was “terrified.” He looked outside and saw a scene across the London landscape that worried him: no fog, clear skies. “Not even a wisp of mist,” he wrote in a letter on March 4, 1900, to ...