Claude Monet: Water Lilies

MoMA Artist Series

by Claude Monet (Artist), Ann Temkin (Contributor)

In 1955 MoMA became the first US museum to acquire one of Monet’s paintings of his garden in Giverny. This volume by Ann Temkin, Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at MoMA, recounts the history of Monet’s Water Lilies paintings at the Museum and underscores their resonance with the art of the last half-century.

56 pages, Hardcover

Published October 24, 2017

About the author

Claude Monet also known as Oscar-Claude Monet or Claude Oscar Monet (November 14, 1840 – December 5, 1926) was a founder of French impressionist painting, and the most consistent and prolific practitioner of the movement's philosophy of expressing one's perceptions before nature, especially as applied to plein-air landscape painting.

Reviews

[Wilde Sky · Rating 4 out of 5]

Some paintings by a famous artist are discussed.

The pictures / images were great - but the analysis of the painting left me a bit cold. A bit of background on the artist would have been good.

My overall rating of 4 stars is for the artworks – the commentary was 3 stars.