The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism

Taking its lead from French artists like Renoir and Monet the American impressionist movement followed its own path which over a forty-year period reveals as much about America as a nation as it does about its art as a creative power-house. It’s a story closely tied to a love of gardens and a desire to preserve nature in a rapidly urbanizing nation. Travelling to studios gardens and iconic locations throughout the United States UK and France this mesmerising film is a feast for the eyes. The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism features the sell-out exhibition The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement 1887–1920 that began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum Old Lyme Connecticut.