| The Water Garden | |
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| Artist | Childe Hassam |
| Year | 1909 |
| Medium | Oil on canvas |
| Dimensions | 61 cm× 91.4 cm(24 in× 36.0 in) |
| Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
The Water Garden is a 1909 painting by the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
The painting depicts a vivacious patch of flowers set on a flat field of grass. [1] This seemingly flat plain is pockmarked with shallow ponds that have been grown-over with aquatic plants. The painting has been noted for being heavily inflected on by post-impressionist artistic thought. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's description of the painting, Hassam's work was likely painted in East Hampton, where the artist spent his final years. [2]
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