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
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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.
Amara Okafor · Jun 2026
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.
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926) — Water Lilies (Agapanthus)
Georges Seurat — Study for "A Sunday on La Grande Jatte"
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Le Béal
Theodore Wores — Buddha's Flowers: Lotus, Tokyo
Pierre-Auguste Renoir — Meadow (La Prairie)