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Artists Affiliated with Giverny
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Between the late 1880s and World War I, the Norman village of Giverny, France, was the site of a popular international artists' colony. A notable strength of the Terra's collection is art by Americans who were affiliated with Giverny.
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Dawson Dawson-Watson
Date: 1888
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.39
Text Entries: The Village
American artists often portrayed the picturesque village of Giverny-a subject never painted by Monet. In Giverny and Giverny: Road Looking West, Dawson Dawson-Watson depicted the washed out color effect of the noon sun's glaring light on the village's stone walls, roofs and winding streets.
As he wrote, "it is very difficult to make people understand the difference between the handling of color indoors & out. Out of doors the light comes from every quarter & brings with it all sorts of reflected color...."
Thomas Buford Meteyard explored the effects of moonlight on shape and form in a rare nocturnal scene of the village in Giverny, Moonlight. The painting's mystery is conveyed through its broad planes, geometric composition and cool dark colors. The flattened, well-defined shapes are linked to the artist's association with the Nabis, a group of French artists who experimented with decorative patterns as a symbolic language.
Dawson Dawson-Watson
Date: c. 1890
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1999.40
Text Entries: The Village
American artists often portrayed the picturesque village of Giverny-a subject never painted by Monet. In Giverny and Giverny: Road Looking West, Dawson Dawson-Watson depicted the washed out color effect of the noon sun's glaring light on the village's stone walls, roofs and winding streets.
As he wrote, "it is very difficult to make people understand the difference between the handling of color indoors & out. Out of doors the light comes from every quarter & brings with it all sorts of reflected color...."
Thomas Buford Meteyard explored the effects of moonlight on shape and form in a rare nocturnal scene of the village in Giverny, Moonlight. The painting's mystery is conveyed through its broad planes, geometric composition and cool dark colors. The flattened, well-defined shapes are linked to the artist's association with the Nabis, a group of French artists who experimented with decorative patterns as a symbolic language.