Impressionist Gardens at the National Galleries of Scotland

Pierre-Auguste Renoir Woman with Parasol in a Garden, c.1873 Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid © (Photograph) Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid

Impressionist Gardens at the National Galleries of Scotland, the first ever exhibition on the subject, features the work of all of the leading Impressionist painters, showing their depictions of gardens both domestic and public. The exhibition shows around 90 works including artists like Monet, Van Gogh, Camille Pissarro, Manet, Gaugin, among others. 


The big draw will be Monet’s water lilies, painted in the Giverny garden, which he called his “most beautiful work of art”. He became obsessed with the interplay of water and light, involving the viewer completely with his canvasses that are given over entirely to water, leaves and reflections. There are about 250 in his water lily series, only a few of which are on show here.

Water Lily pond by
Claude Monet

Detail from Gathering Flowers in a French Garden, 1888, by Frederick Childe Hassam

• • • This exhibition will be on from 31st July  to  17th October 2010
    • Royal Scottish Academy Building (Upper Galleries)