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Claude Monet

Garden Masterpiece Today is the 96th anniversary of the death of the impressionist painter Claude Monet who died on this day in 1926 at the age of 86. Monet had insisted on a simple funeral, and as such, his coffin was draped with plain black cloth. His long-time friend Georges Clemenceau (pronounced kle-mon-so) removed it,…

A Painter to Flowers Today is the birthday of Claude Monet who was born on this day in 1840. Gardeners love Stephen Gwynn’s 1934 book Claude Monet and his Garden. In 1883 Monet purchased a house. Monet immediately set about creating a hidden water garden fashioned out of waste marshland. Monet made sure his lily…