Water Lilies

1906

89.9 × 94.1 cm (35.4 × 37 in)

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In the collection of Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago — check current display status with the museum.

VOICES FROM HISTORY

“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel.”

— Claude Monet, letter to his friend Gustave Geffroy, August 1908

I keep this one open in a tab at work like a window. Five minutes of looking and my shoulders come down from my ears.

Eric Chen · Jun 2026

The pink ones read as reflections of clouds at first. Then you realize they are the flowers. Then you are not sure again.

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VOICES FROM HISTORY

“These landscapes of water and reflection have become an obsession. It is beyond my strength as an old man, and yet I want to render what I feel.”

— Claude Monet, letter to his friend Gustave Geffroy, August 1908

I keep this one open in a tab at work like a window. Five minutes of looking and my shoulders come down from my ears.

Eric Chen · Jun 2026

The pink ones read as reflections of clouds at first. Then you realize they are the flowers. Then you are not sure again.