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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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Philip Leslie Hale
Date: 1888
Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection
Object number: 1988.17
Text Entries: In 1887 Philip Leslie Hale traveled to Paris for academic training and the following summer made his first trip to Giverny, where he completed this work on panel. Like many of the American artists who traveled to the Normandy village, Hale began to experiment with various techniques in order to represent the brilliant light of the countryside. In this small painting, brushstrokes thick with paint become notations for the sun-dappled forms of the trees, grass, and river. If not for the prompt of the title, the viewer could easily miss the dematerialized figure in the foreground, whose shape merges with the landscape.