By Jackie Wullschläger - Author, Monet: The Restless Vision Bridge Over the Water Lily Pond ... art historians started to catch up, too. In 1955, MoMA acquired its first large Water Lilies canvas.

It’s also the only water lily painting Monet was photographed working on — sitting under a parasol in his gardens at Giverny, ...

The Water Lilies series is usually divided into two compositional groups: one that depicts the pond ... canvas. Before the Impressionist era, painters mostly used blue, green, and yellow to paint ...