Style and Art

Press Release

Studying Claude Monet’s Relationship with the Norman Landscape,
This Exhibition will be on View February 18 – May 20, 2007

CLEVELAND (Jan. 25, 2007) — The Cleveland Museum of Art (CMA) is thrilled to announce the opening of Monet in Normandy, a groundbreaking exhibition celebrating the intimate relationship between Claude Monet and the stunning landscape of Normandy, on view February 18 through May 20, 2007, at CMA.

Organized by The Cleveland Museum of Art, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco and the North Carolina Museum of Art, Monet in Normandy is the first scholarly exhibition to examine Monet’s lifelong attachment to this unique region of France. The rugged shoreline and imposing cliffs of Normandy’s coast, the countryside of shimmering wheat and poppy fields, the picturesque villages of the region’s interior and the artist’s garden at Giverny were mainstays in Monet’s life. His evolving depictions of this quintessentially French landscape over more than 60 years trace the development of a long and remarkable artistic career. Monet in Normandy features works on loan from American and european museums and private collections.

Note: I wish more museums, galleries and websites, offered a press area as complete as the one from The Cleveland Museum of Art.