The Artist's Garden, Album Ogrodów Artystów, Jackie Bennett

The Artist's Garden

The Artist's Garden offers an intriguing study into 20 gardens that have inspired and been home to some of the greatest painters from history. This sumptuously illustrated and fascinating book delves into the stories behind the gardens which inspired some of the most beautiful and important works of art.

These gardens not only supplied the inspiration for creative works but also illuminate the professional motivation and private life of the artists themselves, from Cezanne's house in the south of France to Childe Hassam at Celia Thaxter's garden off the coast of Maine. Claude Monet's Giverny was the catalyst for hundreds of great paintings, each one different from the one before, while sometimes a whole village becomes the focus for a colony of artists, as at Gerberoy in Picardy and Skagen on the northernmost tip of Denmark.

About the book

• Author: Jackie Bennett, publisher Frances Lincoln
• Category: foreign language literature
• Paperback edition

An intriguing insight into the lives of great painters and the gardens which inspired them to their creative heights, now available in paperback.