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Reflections of Nature

Monet's Water Lilies and Art Nouveau

Claude Monet, Water Lilies (Agapanthus), ca. 1915–26

The Cleveland Museum of Art — John L. Severance Fund and an anonymous gift

Reflections of Nature is on view at The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, United States, until May 2, 2027.

Last verified August 15, 2026 · Official source ↗

This focus exhibition places Monet's luminous Water Lilies paintings alongside decorative arts and works on paper from the Art Nouveau period (1890-1910). Though Monet was not formally part of the movement, his late work shares Art Nouveau's embrace of organic rhythm, asymmetry, and nature as muse.

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Venue

  1. The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art
    Kansas City, United States · May 2, 2026 – May 2, 2027
    Until 2 May 2027

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A large canvas of a water-lily pond in late style: broad sweeps of blue, green and violet with the trailing strap-like leaves of agapanthus at the lower edge, the horizon dissolved entirely.

Claude Monet, Water Lilies (Agapanthus), ca. 1915–26

The Cleveland Museum of Art — John L. Severance Fund and an anonymous gift · Source ↗

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