Giverny: Monet's Influence
Title: Meadow with Haystacks near Giverny, 1885
Artist: Claude Monet (French 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection & ©: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Bequest of Arthur Tracey Cabot 42.541
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
Impressionist Giverny
A Colony of Artists: 1885-1915
San Diego Museum of Art
July 21 - September 20, 2007
Giverny. That has to mean Claude Monet. The two are synonymous. Not necessarily only Monet.
Title: Morning on the Seine near Giverny, 1887
Artist: Claude Monet (French 1840-1926)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection & ©: Museum of Fine Arts Boston
Gift of Mrs. W. Scott Fitz 11.1261
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
The Musée d’Art Américain Giverny, in Normandy, France, organized
an exhibit celebrating the Giverny artists with an exhibition of approximately 100 Impressionist paintings drawn
from both public and private collections. In July Impressionist Giverny opens at the San Diego Museum of Art.
Title: Lady in a Garden, 1915
Artist: Frederick Carl Frieseke (American 1874-1939)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection 1999:52
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
Impressionist Giverny: A Colony of Artists, 1885–1915 includes key
examples by Claude Monet, Theodore Robinson, John Leslie Breck, Frederick Carl
Frieseke, and Pierre Bonnard, as well as many other master artists.
Title: Study of an Autumn Day, No. 7, 1891
Artist: John Leslie Breck (American 1860-1899)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection 1989.4.7
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
The time frame corresponds to the period when the village’s most
famous inhabitant, Claude Monet, developed his elaborate gardens and his
signature style of Impressionist art.
American Impressionists
Title: Autumn Giverny (The New Moon), 1889
Artist: John Leslie Breck (American 1860-1899)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection 1989.16
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
Monet's fame crossed the Atlantic and of course American artists visited Europe to study their craft.
Title: The Wedding March, 1892
Artist: Theodore Robinson (American 1852-1896)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection 1999.127
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
One of the first Americans to adopt Impressionism for himself was Theodore Robinson. He visited
Giverny and became a close friend to Claude Monet.
Title: Blossoms at Giverny, 1891-1892
Artist: Theodore Robinson (American 1852-1896)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection 1992.130
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
“The public’s appetite for Impressionist work is well-known,” says SDMA’s
executive director, Derrick R. Cartwright. “This project will reward visitors
seeking the works of Claude Monet, but at the same time it offers something
significantly more to San Diego audiences. In addition to Monet, this tiny
village was home—for varying lengths of time—to numerous talented artists from
around the world. British, Czech, German, Scandinavian, and especially North
American. These painters will be shown alongside the works of their celebrated
French counterparts, presenting a more complex view of the period’s practice, as
well as insights into the various forms that Impressionist experiments took over
time.”
Title: From the Hill, Giverny, 1889-1892
Artist: Theodore Robinson (American 1852-1896)
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Permanent Collection: Terra Foundation for American Art
Daniel J. Terra Collection 1987.6
Image Courtesy: San Diego Museum of Art
All of the works featured were selected because they were created in or near the rural village of
Giverny.
Impressionist Giverny
A Colony of Artists: 1885-1915
San Diego Museum of Art:
July 21 - September 20 2007
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