The Music Hall Loft presents: The Art of Appledore and Celia Thaxter's Garden

Description

Featuring Exhibition On Screen: The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism, with in-person Post Film Panel Discussion and Q&A.

Exhibition On Screen Narrated by Gillian Anderson

Panel: John Forti, Doug Nelson, Alastair Dacey and Jennifer Seavey, moderated by Maryellen Burke

In 1886, the French art dealer Paul Durand-Ruel brought a selection of his huge stock of impressionist paintings to New York, changing the course of art in America forever. American artists flocked to the French village of Giverny, home to the master impressionist Claude Monet, and cheered the French new wave: painting outdoors with a new found brilliance and vitality. As Europe recoiled against the work of Monet, Degas and Renoir, Americans embraced it and created their own style of impressionism.

It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Traveling to studios, gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States, UK and France, this mesmerizing film is a feast for the eyes.

The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, Connecticut.