Featuring forty paintings and four sculptures, The American Impressionists in the Garden revisits the different kinds of garden settings that inspired American artists working in Europe and in the United States.  Many, if not all of the artists, included in this exhibition studied abroad, and while in Europe they depicted the gardens they encountered.  Several artists painted gardens in Giverny, home of the noted French Impressionist Claude Monet.  Back in the United States, numerous painters turned to the old villages of New England and Long Island for subject matter and a place to summer.  The gardens they tended and depicted were old fashioned reflecting the growing fascination with America’s colonial past.  Other artists depicted ancient plantation gardens around Charleston, South Carolina, or an adobe walled garden in Taos, New Mexico.  Although artists depicted a wide range of subjects, for many, inspiration could be found in their own back yard in the gardens that they created and tended.

Organized by Cheekwood and traveling to two additional venues, this exhibition, on display March 13 through September 6, provides a rare opportunity for visitors to discover and explore the fine arts surrounded by the beauty and artistry of Cheekwood’s own gardens.