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We have recently added eight new stops to our in-gallery audio tour. Featured here is Curator of Collections and Curator of European and American Art Andria Derstine - and the next director of the Allen Memorial Art Museum - discussing our early work by Claude Monet, Garden of the Princess, Louvre (Le Jardin de l’Infante), from 1867. We’ve added video that zooms in on details of the work, bringing you closer than you can get in the galleries.
Visit the galleries to hear all twenty-four stops on the tour, with contributions from AMAM staff, Oberlin College students and faculty, and Oberlin community members!
If you are a fan of our Monet painting Wisteria - take note. After just over a semester on display, the work will be taken down soon. Your last chance to see it in the AMAM galleries is this Sunday, January 22. It will then go on loan to the Cincinnati Museum of Art for their exhibition “Monet in Giverny: Landscapes of Reflection.”
To make up for it, we thought we’d post some detailed images of Monet’s brushstrokes in the work - late in his career, they could be characterized as very loose, almost abstract, but, never sloppy or imprecise.
Of course, our early Monet painting, The Garden of the Princess, will remain on display.
Happy Birthday to Claude Monet! Monet was born on this date in 1840, and had a long, prolific career until his death in 1926. Did you know the Allen Memorial Art Museum owns two paintings by this founder of Impressionism?
His painting, The Garden of the Princess (Louvre) dates to 1867, shortly before the exhibitions that brought prominence to the Impressionist movement. Wisteria is from the end of his life, around 1919-1920, and shows the much looser, almost abstract, brushwork that characterized this stage of his career. As such, the works make fantastic bookends for thinking about Monet’s body of work.
Both paintings are currently on display at the AMAM - but Wisteria will be on loan during the spring semester, so if you haven’t visited the museum yet, now’s the time!
