Art At Noon: The Artist's Garden

Wednesday, April 24, 2024

12:00 - 1:00 PM (online)

Inspired by European impressionist paintings of open countryside, private gardens, and urban parks, American artists working in the years between 1887 and 1920 turned their attentions to the new landscapes being created in the fast-changing cities and rapidly emerging suburbs of their own country. In this lecture, Dr. Anna Marley will discuss artists William Merritt Chase, Childe Hassam, Maria Oakey Dewing, Violet Oakley and others alongside the books, journals, and ephemeral artifacts that both shaped and were products of the garden movement. Employing the interdisciplinary perspectives of horticultural and art history, The Artist's Garden places special emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region as the epicenter of a national garden movement and considers the impact of impressionism not on American painting alone, but on the nation's culture at large. 

Image: Jane Peterson (1876-1965), Spring Bouquet, ca. 1912, Oil on canvas, 40 1/16 x 30 in. (101.8 x 76.2 cm.), Gift of Martin Horwitz.

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