This is the first exhibition to deal with the region of France in which Monet spent most of his life and created the majority of his paintings. Although born in Paris, Monet moved with his parents to Normandy as a small child. His earliest pictorial experiments were made here and his enduring artistic relationship with Normandy--its dramatic coastline, commercial port cities, picturesque villages, countryside and river-- has never been the focus of a scholarly exhibition. As well as the works painted along the northern coast in the 1860s through 1880s, the exhibition also presents Monet's mythic field and village paintings done at Giverny and his Rouen Cathedral series. This exhibition will greatly enhance our understanding of the artist, encompassing the fullness and complexity of Monet's image of Normandy.

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