Claude Monet Archives

Remembering Painter and Gardener Claude Monet: His Funeral, His Friend, and His Love of Nature

“Claude said, ‘I am following Nature without being able to grasp her. I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.'” December 5, 1926 On this day, the impressionist painter Claude Monet died at 86. Claude had insisted on a simple funeral, and as such, his coffin was draped with plain black cloth. But his…

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…