Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age

Giverny Hillside, c. 1890–91
Object-Guy Rose, Giverny Hillside
Guy Rose was not only instrumental in introducing California to impressionism, but he was also considered the state’s premier artist in this style. Throughout his career, he worked periodically in Giverny—one of many American and international artists who gravitated to the French village, about fifty miles northwest of Paris, that was home to Claude Monet (1840–1926). In Rose’s quiet landscape, the expanse of hillside, painted with delicate lines and individual brushstrokes to represent the grassy surface, rises to a bright but overcast sky, truncating the view of another hill in the distance. The painting represents the hills behind the village where residents maintained vegetable fields, which the artist indicated by variegated patches. Giverny Hillside is experimental in its dramatic simplicity, casual composition, and lack of narrative. Asymmetrical and starkly two-dimensional, the composition suggests the influence of Japanese aesthetics.
Learn more about this painting on the Terra Foundation website.
Giverny Hillside, c. 1890–91
Cosmopolitanism and the Gilded Age

Une Averse—rue Bonaparte, 1887

Morning at Breakwater, Shinnecock, c. 1897

In the Orchard, 1891

Summertime, 1894

Breton Woman with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877

Breton Girl with a Basket, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877

Girl on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877

Young Boy on the Beach, Study for “En route pour la pêche” and “Fishing for Oysters at Cancale”, 1877

The Zattere: Harmony in Blue and Brown, c. 1879

Note in Red: The Siesta, by 1884

From Shore to Shore, 1885

The Weaver, 1889

Brook, Giverny, 1887

On the Veranda, 1887

Lotus Lilies, 1888

Brittany Town Morning, Larmor, 1884

Dennis Miller Bunker Painting at Calcot, 1888

Spring Flowers (Peonies), by 1889

Horse Drawn Cabs at Evening, New York, c. 1890

Garden at Giverny (In Monet's Garden), c. 1887–91

Giverny Hillside, c. 1890–91

Horticulture Building, World's Columbian Exposition, Chicago, 1893

Blossoms at Giverny, 1891–92

Self-Portrait, c. 1889–96

Les Invalides, Paris, 1896

Winter Landscape, c. 1890–1900

Havana Harbor, 1902

Portrait of Thomas J. Eagan, 1907

Portrait of a Lady Holding a Rose, 1912

Lady in a Garden, c. 1912