Haystacks in the snow

In 1891, an exhibit by Claude Monet in the Durand-Ruel gallery in Paris included a series of 15 haystacks. It was unusual at the time …

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The long cold winter

It’s been a long winter. Cold, snowy, windy, the kind of bone-chilling weather that makes you want to hibernate. Many artists have painted snowy landscapes …

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The untended garden

What exactly is an untended garden?  The phrase often has a negative connotation, like Shakespeare’s “unweeded garden” overrun with foul things. We tend to think …

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