Sometimes, a single sincere word from someone can change the course of a life and open doors to possibilities that were once closed. Claude Monet (1840–1926), the founder of Impressionism, also had ...

Ostheimer considers the current Monet exhibition "a quite accessible show for kids," so she pursued the opportunity to create special programming around it after it was decided to focus the annual ...

This year marks the 150th anniversary of Impressionism, the 19th-century art style defined by strong brushstrokes and ordinary subjects in open-air settings. To mark the occasion, Sotheby's is ...

On a November morning in 1872, Claude Monet set up his easel and began furiously painting the foggy scene beyond his hotel balcony. As a Normandy native, Monet knew Le Havre’s harbor well, but he ...

GIVERNY, France (AP) — Mottled brushstrokes capture the sunset on a haystack, vivid hues fragment forest grass, while hazy edges give life to Normandy trees as they dance in the breeze. These are ...

Their work can be seen in the touring show “Impressionism Revolution: Monet to Matisse,” currently at Santa Barbara Museum of Art, alongside the latter’s “Encore: 19th-Century French Art.” The Dallas ...

“I painted part of the day today, while it was snowing continually: you would have laughed to see me entirely white, my beard covered in icy stalactites,” wrote Claude Monet in an 1895 letter to a ...