The Musee Americain Giverny has opened its first full season with two parallel exhibitions of the work of American painters inspired by visits to France.
A sunny key painting in one exhibition is "The Wedding March" by Theodore Robinson. It shows French painter Claude Monet's step-daughter, veiled in bridal white, walking with her top-hatted new husband through Giverny. This is part of "Lasting Impressions: American Painters in France, 1865-1915," a continuation of the museum's 1992 inaugural exhibition.This group show also includes favorite works by Frederick Carl Frieseke, and by Lila Cabot Perry. Perry was a close friend of Monet and shared a passion for gardening with him when she lived in Giverny.
A new exhibition, "Maurice Brazil Prendergast at a Glance," features 15 works, oils, watercolors and monotypes, of this American post-Impressionist.
The museum is located near Monet's house and gardens in the village on the Seine about 50 miles northwest of Paris where he lived and worked during the last four decades of his life (1840-1926).
The Musee Americain describes itself as a sister institution of the Terra Museum of American Art in Chicago, with a similar dedication to the understanding and appreciation of American art.