Study for ‘Déjeuner sur l’Herbe’, 1863-1868, oil on canvas. 

Édouard Manet, 1832-1883, French.  The Courtauld Institute loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in 2023/24

 

The deep, rich, enticing ground of summer is but the context of Manet’s first jarring notice of his intention to depart from the techniques of the Western tradition in order to renovate it. 

This is a subject taken up by more than one artist of the Italian Renaissance which he had studied.

Preparation for the painting took a year.

The painting was refused by the Salon of 1863. It was hung in the Salon des Refusés, where it began the consolidation of Manet’s reputation.

 

 

 

Flower Garden, Kneeling Woman With Hat, 1908, oil on canvas.

Emil Nolde, 1867-1956, German.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

In the Garden at the Ville d’Avray, c. 1845, oil on canvas.  Camille Corot, 1796-1845, French. 

Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in the spring/summer of 2018.

The artist’s parents admiring their garden.

 

 

 

Flower Beds in the Dresden Gardens, c.1910, oil on canvas

Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, 1880-1938, German.  Baltimore Art Museum

 

 

 

The Artist’s Garden at Vétheuil .

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

Vétheuil, 1967-68, oil on canvas.

Joan Mitchell, 1925-1992, American. Private loan to the Baltimore Art Museum in 2022 

Mitchell was a close student of  the works of Monet and lived in the village of Vétheuil for 25 years

 

 

 

Untitled, 2007, oil on canvas. 

Bill Scott, American born 1956.  Private collection on loan to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in 2017 

 

Scott was a student of Joan Mitchell during her time in France.

 

 

 

 

The Gate at Bougival, 1884, oil on canvas.

  Berthe Morisot,  Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY in the spring/summer of 2018.

 

Bougival was a village west of Paris where the artist and her family sometimes rented a house in summer.

 

 

 

 

Garden, 1935, oil on canvas. 

Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947, French.  ?Location

 

 

Landscape with Woman Gardening, c. 1896, oil on canvas. 

Pierre-Auguste Renoir, 1841-1919, French. The Barnes Collection, Philadelphia

 

 

 

In the Garden at Argenteuil, 1876, oil on canvas. 

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.

Hollyhocks growing taller than the artist’s wife, Camille, in his garden in the Paris suburb

 

 

 

Stairs in the Artist’s Garden, 1942/44, oil on canvas.

Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947, French.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

Steichen’s Garden, 1921, oil on canvas.

  Arthur B. Carles, 1882-1952, American.  Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

A painting based on the garden of the American photographer and painter, Edward Steichen, made by Carles when he was staying in the French village of Voulangis.

 

 

 

One Year the Milkweed, 1944, oil on canvas.

Arshile Gorky, 1904-1948, American born Armenia. National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

Common milkweed (Asclepia Syriaca) native to eastern Canada and the Piedmont of the eastern United States

 

 

 

 

Garden at Vaucresson, 1920, reworked 3 times before 1936, distemper on canvas. 

Edouard Vuillard, 1868-1940, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

Farm Scene, c. 1940. 

Henry McCarter, 1866-1942, American.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

L’Ornière (The Rut), 1918, oil on canvas. 

Joan Miro, 1839-1983, Spanish.  Private collection on loan to the Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

 

The Pool at the Jas de Bouffon, c. 1885/86, oil on canvas. 

Paul Cezanne, 1839-1906, French. Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

Dahlias, Garden at Petit Gennevilliers, 1893, oil on canvas. 

Gustave Caillebotte, 1848-1894, French.  National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

My Summer Studio, c. 1900, oil on canvas. 

John Henry Twacthman, 1853-1902, American.  Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

 

 

 

Poplars on the Bank of the Epte River, 1891, oil on canvas. 

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

 

Bend in the Epte River near Giverny, 1888, oil on canvas. 

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.  Philadelphia Art Museum

 

 

The Monet Family at their Garden in Argenteuil, 1874, oil on canvas. 

Edouard Manet, 1832-1883, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

The Terrace, 1918, oil on canvas.

Pierre Bonnard, 1867-1947.  The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC

 

 

 

 

From the Balcony, 1909, oil on canvas. 

Pierre Bonnard,  1867-1947, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

Adolphe Monet Reading in a Garden, 1867, oil on canvas.  Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

 

The artist’s father in the garden of his aunt’s house in Sainte-Addresse near the Norman port of Le Havre.

 

 

 

Landscape:  The Parc Monceau, 1876, oil on canvas.  

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

 

Blue Abstraction, c. 1927, oil on canvas. 

Arthur B. Carles, 1882-1952, American.  Philadelphia Museum of Art

 

 

The Parc Monceau, 1877, oil on canvas. 

Gustave Caillebotte, 1848-1894, French.  Private collection on loan to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2018

 

 

 

Yerres, Allée Sous-Bois Dans le Parc, c. 1895, oil on canvas. 

Gustave Caillebotte, 1848-1894, French. The Phillips Collection, Washington DC

 

 

 

 

The Garden Chair, 1947-60, oil on canvas. 

Georges Braque, 1882-1963, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY.

A painting made over several years at the artist’s country home in Normandy.

 

 

 

 

The Parc Monceau, 1878, oil on canvas. 

Claude Monet, 1840-1926, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

The Public Gardens at Pointoise, 1874, oil on canvas. 

Camille Pissaro, 1830-1903, French.  Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY

 

 

 

Door Yard, white cosmos, 1967, tempera on panel. 

John McCoy, 1910-1989, American.  Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, Pennsylvania

 

A member of the Brandywine River artists and a brother-in-law of Andrew Wyeth.

 

 

 

Self-Portrait in Landscape, 1970. 

Louis Sloan, 1932-2008, American. Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA

 

 

 

 

Jan’s Garden in July, 2018, oil on linen.

Scott Noel, American born 1955. On exhibition at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia in 2019. 

The garden of a classic Philly row house: made of brick and sometimes 2 stories and sometimes 3.

 

 

 

Peonies in June, 2020, oil on canvas. 

Mary Page Evans, American born 1937.  Brandywine River Museum, Chadds Ford, PA