Claude Monet | Le Parc Monceau, 1876

Situated on the boulevard de Courcelles in Paris and surrounded by fashionable town houses, the Parc Monceau was planned in the late eighteenth century in the form of an English garden.

Monet painted three views of the park in the spring of 1876.

This one, shown at the 1877 Impressionist exhibition, focuses on the swaths of green grass and blooming trees.

The building visible at left in this painting also appears in two works from 1878, including one in the Museum’s collection. | © The Metropolitan Museum of Art

Claude Monet | The Parc Monceau, 1876 | Metropolitan Museum of Art

Oscar Ricciardi | Capri

Charles Caryl Coleman | Apple Blossoms

Norton Bush | A river in the tropics, 1891

Maurice Prendergast | Along the Seine, 1892

Maurice Prendergast (1858-1924) was one of the first American painters to adopt a post-impressionist style.

His distinctive paintings utilize a pattern of flat, short brushstrokes and bold outlines to create brightly colored scenes of outdoor leisure.

Prendergast was born in St. John's, Newfoundland, in 1858.

In 1868 the family moved to Boston, the hometown of Prendergast’s mother, where the artist attended school through the eighth grade.

Prendergast first worked in a dry goods store and then began earning a living creating show cards—hand-lettered advertisements for store windows.

Maurice Prendergast | Along the Seine, 1892 | Whitney Museum of American Art

John Neagle | Portrait of a young girl, 1836

John Neagle (November 4, 1796 - September 17, 1865) was a fashionable American painter, primarily of portraits, during the first half of the 19th century in Philadelphia.

Gabriel Mark Lipper | Oregon, United States

Gabriel Mark Lipper is an Ashland-based artist whose work addresses, in his words, "the growing schism between self and other".

He works predominantly in oil and makes paintings that are classical in nature.

He has studied in Germany, Italy and Japan and has been shown at numerous galleries in the Pacific Northwest and elsewhere on the West Coast, including at the Hanson Howard Gallery in Ashland and at the Elan Gallery in Jacksonville.