When one thinks of the Impressionists, one thinks of Paris or northern France. Not the gardens and landscapes of Connecticut, Massachusetts and Pennsylvania. But there is a story to be told of American artists learning from a movement in Europe but making it very much their own, and very much reflective of America that at the end of the nineteenth century was undergoing enormous change. Tim Marlow: Great Art s2e5: The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, Gillian Anderson, ITV 2018
The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement was an exhibition that originated at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia and then travelled to here: the Connecticut Florence Griswold Museum. ibid.
What brings them together is their interests in gardens and painting outdoors. ibid. Anna O Marley, curator Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art
We feature on a blockbuster that came to the Royal Academy in London a short while ago: painting the modern garden – Monet to Matisse. No-one quite imagined just how popular it would be. But it was more than that: it was an exhibition that sought among other things to show how gardening wasn’t seen as a hobby by these artists but as an art-form in itself. Tim Marlow, Great Art s3e4: Painting the Modern Garden – Monet to Matisse, ITV 2019
Retired Leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure. John Milton, Il Penseroso l49
Buckingham Palace today has the largest private gardens in the capital – 39 acres with over 1,000 trees and a lake the size of two football pitches. Buckingham Palace with Alexander Armstrong, Channel 5 2023