The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement
presented by Anna O. Marley, Chief of Curatorial Affairs of Historical American
Art, at PAFA, and Juror of LBIF’s Plein Air Plus Exhibition
Date Sunday, September 15; 2:00pm
FREE Admission

Inspired by European impressionist paintings of open countryside, private gardens, and urban parks, American artists working in the years between 1887 and 1920 turned their attentions to the new landscapes being created in the fast-changing cities and rapidly emerging suburbs of their own country. 

The Artist’s Garden tells the intertwined stories of American art and the new American garden movement in the years on either side of the turn of the twentieth century. In this lecture Marley will discuss artists alongside the books, journals, and ephemeral artifacts that both shaped and were products of the garden movement. Employing the interdisciplinary perspectives of horticultural and art history, The Artist’s Garden places special emphasis on the mid-Atlantic region as the epicenter of a national garden movement and considers the impact of impressionism not on American painting alone, but on the nation’s culture at large.