I always enjoy spending time at the fantastic Huntington Library and Gardens. I recently went to see their exhibition called “The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement, 1887–1920”. It showcases 17 paintings from the exhibition that originated at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.

“This exhibition gets behind the undeniable beauty of impressionistic pictures of gardens and asks questions about the social activity of gardening… (it) explores the connections between the American Impressionist movement and the emergence of gardening as a middle-class leisure pursuit.” said James Glisson, the Assistant Curator of American Art at The Huntington.

The exhibition runs through May 9, 2016 at the Boone Gallery (seen above).

My favorite painting was…

The Crimson Rambler, ca. 1908, oil on canvas by Philip Leslie Hale (1865-1931)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other lovely works included…

Saint James’s Park, London, 1905, oil on canvas by Daniel Garber (1880-1958)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

A Breezy Day, 1887, oil on canvas by Charles Courtney Curran (1861-1942)

 

Piping Shepherd, 1896, oil on wood by Anna Lea Merritt (1844-1930)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Snow, ca. 1895-96, oil on canvas by John Henry Twachtman (1853-1902)