Working Among Flowers

Perspectives from The Artist's Road

“[The floral still life] is, I think, an excellent subject to paint.”
- Claude Monet to Frédéric Bazille

The Engagement Still Life 1869 Henri Fantin-Latour

Among the many wonderful works in the exhibition, Working Among Flowers - Floral Still Life Painting in Nineteenth-Century France, were paintings by one of our favorite artists, Henri Fantin-Latour (1836 - 1904). The show includes works by dozens of artists including Matisse, Bonnard, Redon, Monet, van Gogh, Cézanne, Cassatt, Renoir as well as earlier works by artists of the eighteenth century including Chardin and Redouté. It has traveled from the Dallas Museum of Art to the Virginia Museum of Fine Art, where we had the opportunity to view it, and will reopen on July 19th at the Denver Art Museum.

It is comprised of far more than what the title conveys, including works from nearly two centuries, a time during which still life and landscape subjects w…