A weeping willow's gold canopy hangs over deep blue shadow

A single willow tree dominates the canvas, its reddish-brown trunk and branches arching outward beneath a dense curtain of golden-green foliage rendered in long, cascading strokes. To the left, the foliage darkens into deep indigo and violet-blue. The ground beneath the tree is suggested with short strokes of ochre and green. The composition presses the tree close to the picture plane, filling almost the entire frame with its hanging branches.

Claude Monet (1840–1926) gave Impressionism its name and its longest career. From the 1870s he painted outdoors in the Seine valley and on the Normandy coast, pursuing the changing light of a single motif in series — haystacks, poplars, Rouen Cathedral, the Thames — and from 1890 the garden he built at Giverny, whose water lilies occupied his last twenty-five years. His paintings are held by the Musée d'Orsay, the Musée Marmottan Monet, the National Gallery in London and the Art Institute of Chicago.

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