Impressionists in their gardens
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Impressionists in their gardens
Antique Collectors' Club, c2012
- : hbk
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*Lavishly illustrated, this publication includes photographs of how these gardens are now*Impressionists in their Gardens covers the entire impressionist movement*Features information on how the fashionable plants that were used, discovered and cultivated*Illustrated in gorgeous color photographs of famous impressionist paintings and garden sites - Chicago Botanic Impressionists in their Gardens explores gardens through the senses of the Impressionists from three continents - Europe, North America and Australia - enjoying the essentially similar pleasures of the garden, but engaging with the light from their skies in order to create very different sensations. The enclosure of the garden acts like a picture frame showcasing a living canvas that exudes the individuality, vision and taste of its tenants, their family, friends, lifestyles and, in the simple words of the greatest Impressionist and gardener Monet, providing motifs to paint. The first section uses contemporary paintings and photographs to see the who, what and where of Impressionist gardens - planting, eating, loving, sleeping, children, animals, working and painting.
The second section, illustrated with paintings, old photographs and modern images, starts at the horticultural source - the nurseryman Latour-Marliac at Temple sur Lot, then Monet at Giverny; American Impressionists at Old Lyme, Cos Cob and Appledore in the USA; Gertrude Jekyll at Munstead Wood and beyond; the Heidelburg School and Frederick McCubbin at Fontainebleau; and, chronologically last but not least, Renoir at Les Colettes.
Table of Contents
Contents: Introduction Through the Garden Gate Chapter One: The Garden as Canvas Chapter Two: The Impressionists Nurseryman - Joseph Bory Chapter Three: French Impressions under Norman skies - Monet at Giverny Chapter Four: American Impressions - Childe Hassam and Celia Thaxter on Appledore Chapter Five: English Impressions - Home and Garden with Gertrude Jekyll Chapter Six: Australian Impressions - Frederick McCubbin and Fontainebleau, Mount Macedon Chapter Seven: French Impressions under Mediterranean skies - Renoir at Les Colettes In Memoriam
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