On view in San Francisco from March 21 to July 26, 2026, the exhibition “Monet and Venice” brings collectively greater than twenty of Monet’s Venetian views from private and non-private collections all over the world
Supply: Nice Arts Museums of San Francisco · Picture: Claude Monet, The Grand Canal, Venice, 1908. Oil on canvas. Nice Arts Museums of San Francisco, Reward of Osgood Hooker, 1960.29
Cocurated by Lisa Small, Senior Curator of European Artwork on the Brooklyn Museum, and Melissa Buron, former Director of Curatorial Affairs on the Nice Arts Museums of San Francisco and present Director of Collections and Chief Curator on the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, the exhibition affords a uncommon alternative for guests to expertise Monet’s distinctive imaginative and prescient of the fabled metropolis.
“In 10 weeks in 1908, Monet captured Venice’s ethereal cityscape in shimmering canvases, creating works in contrast to something produced by the centuries of artists who painted town earlier than him,” stated Thomas P. Campbell, Director and CEO of the Nice Arts Museums of San Francisco. “Exploring Monet’s alongside different artists’ work of Venice deepens our understanding of his improvements in capturing atmospheric results on canvas and the enduring inspiration of the Venetian lagoon. We’re grateful to the Brooklyn Museum for his or her collaboration in bringing this exhibition to life.” Monet himself as soon as remarked that Venice was “too lovely to be painted,” and it’s maybe this very magnificence, and town’s fame, that has obscured the importance and daring nature of the works he produced there. Typically overshadowed by his iconic depictions of the French panorama, Monet’s Venetian works are among the many most luminous but underexplored of his profession.
Monet himself as soon as remarked that Venice was “too lovely to be painted,” and it’s maybe this very magnificence, and town’s fame, that has obscured the importance and daring nature of the works he produced there. Typically overshadowed by his iconic depictions of the French panorama, Monet’s Venetian works are among the many most luminous but underexplored of his profession.
