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Impressionist gardens

Gardens, parks, flower fields and orchards by the Impressionists and the painters and printmakers around them, chosen for a bright, unhurried screen.

Impressionist gardens: the collection's first works, side by side
The collection's first works, side by side. On a screen each work shows whole, with its placard.

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Works from Art Institute of Chicago and The Cleveland Museum of Art · public domain (CC0)

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The 24 works

In the order the collection plays them, each with what it shows. Every title links to the work's page at its museum.

  • Poppy Field (Giverny) (opens in a new tab) · Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1890–91 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A field of red poppies stretches under a blue sky with soft clouds, lined with tall poplars and round green trees.
  • A City Park (opens in a new tab) · William Merritt Chase (American, 1849–1916) · c. 1887 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A sunny gravel path curves through a city park past green lawns, palms and flower beds, with a woman resting on a bench.
  • Spring in France (opens in a new tab) · Robert William Vonnoh (American, 1858–1933) · 1890 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A sunlit orchard of young blossoming trees beside a pink-walled farmhouse, with a path through bright green grass.
  • Water Lily Pond (opens in a new tab) · Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) · 1917–19 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Pink and white water lilies float on a pond that reflects green and violet foliage, painted in loose, layered strokes.
  • Orchard (opens in a new tab) · Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1897 · oil on board · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Terraced orchards and garden plots in autumn yellows, oranges and greens slope down a hillside beside a grey path.
  • Reading (opens in a new tab) · Berthe Morisot (French, 1841–1895) · 1873 · oil on canvas · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A woman in a white dress sits reading on a green lawn, with a fan and a parasol beside her and a meadow beyond.
  • Peach Blossoms (opens in a new tab) · Winslow Homer (American, 1836–1910) · 1878 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A young woman in white sits on a stone wall beside a small tree of pink peach blossom, with green hills behind.
  • The Little Pond, Appledore (opens in a new tab) · Childe Hassam (American, 1859–1935) · 1890 · Oil on canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A small blue pond lies among rocks, grasses and white wild roses, with the sea and a low island beyond.
  • The Terrace Bridge, Central Park (opens in a new tab) · Maurice Prendergast (American, 1858-1924) · 1901 · Watercolor, over graphite, on ivory wove paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Crowds of children and adults in summer clothes stroll down a broad stone terrace staircase in a leafy park.
  • May Day, Central Park (opens in a new tab) · Maurice Prendergast (American, born Newfoundland [now Canada], 1858–1924) · 1901 · watercolor over graphite · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Children in white and pink dresses dance around ribboned maypoles on a wide green lawn in a park.
  • The Promenade (Landscape with Cypresses) (opens in a new tab) · Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910) · 1897 · color lithograph on chine collé · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Women in pale robes walk beneath tall blue cypress trees beside a bay with sailing boats, all drawn in coloured dots.
  • In the Park (opens in a new tab) · Henri-Edmond Cross (French, 1856–1910) · c. 1890s · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A nursemaid in a blue cape watches a child playing beside a red toy horse under chestnut trees, drawn in soft coloured dots.
  • The Tuileries Garden (opens in a new tab) · Édouard Vuillard (French, 1868–1940) · 1896 · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Ladies stroll past a round bed of white flowers on a pale lawn in a city garden, with white pigeons in the foreground.
  • Tarragona Terrace and Garden (opens in a new tab) · John Singer Sargent (American, 1856-1925) · c. 1908 · Watercolor and opaque watercolor with printed paper fragments over traces of graphite on ivory wove paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A sunlit stone terrace with a row of pale columns looks onto a garden of bright green leaves and shrubs.
  • Saint-Cloud (opens in a new tab) · Childe Hassam (American, 1859-1935) · 1889 · Watercolor on paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A small girl in white walks down broad stone steps through a green park lined with tall trees.
  • Blind Man's Bluff (opens in a new tab) · Alexandre Lunois (French, 1863–1916) · 1897 · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Young women in long pale dresses play blindman's buff on a park lawn, one of them blindfolded at the centre, with autumn trees beyond.
  • Avenue du Bois de Boulogne (opens in a new tab) · Pierre Bonnard (French, 1867–1947) · 1899 · lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Figures, carriages and a dog move along a sandy avenue under bare trees, in a printed tan and brown haze.
  • Arlésiennes (Mistral) (opens in a new tab) · Paul Gauguin (French, 1848–1903) · 1888 · Oil on jute canvas · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0Women in dark shawls walk through a public garden past a red fence, a green bush and two cone-shaped orange shrubs.
  • The Park (opens in a new tab) · Gaston de Latenay (French, 1859–1943) · 1897 · color lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Women in pale draped dresses sail toy boats in a round pond among white-trunked trees and potted orange trees.
  • Tuileries Gardens (opens in a new tab) · Léon Augustin Lhermitte (French, 1844–1925) · 1884 · etching · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0Families sit on chairs and stroll beneath tall trees in a city garden, with a fountain and buildings beyond, in black and white.
  • The Garden Bench (opens in a new tab) · James Tissot (French, 1836–1902) · 1883 · mezzotint · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A mother and three children sit close together on a garden bench under dark leaves, in a soft black and white print.
  • Beer Garden in Rosenheim (opens in a new tab) · Max Liebermann (German, 1847-1935) (later published by Pan (German and French, 1895-1900)) · 1895 · Etching on cream laid paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0People sit at tables in the dappled shade of tall trees in a beer garden, drawn in dense black lines.
  • The Terrace (opens in a new tab) · Maurice Denis (French, 1870–1943) · 1923, published 1924 · lithograph · The Cleveland Museum of Art · CC0A mother and children gather around a round table on a vine-covered terrace above a valley with cypress trees and a distant city.
  • Weeping Tree (opens in a new tab) · Vincent van Gogh (Dutch, 1853-1890) · 1889 · Reed pen and black-brown ink, with black chalk on off-white wove paper · Art Institute of Chicago · CC0A rounded tree with drooping branches stands in a garden of tall grasses and shrubs, drawn in bold black reed-pen strokes.

Credits and review status

Every work is in the public domain under its museum's own CC0 release, resized for screens by Denframe. Each work's title, creator and museum also travel inside the file and show on its placard.

Publication approval: recorded.