The Water Garden

The Water Garden is a 1909 painting by the American Impressionist painter Childe Hassam. Done in oil on canvas, the painting is in the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. Description The painting depicts a vivacious patch of flowers set on a flat field of grass. This seemingly flat plain is pockmarked with shallow ponds that have been grown-over with aquatic plants. The painting has been noted for being heavily inflected on by post-impressionist artistic thought. According to the Metropolitan Museum of Art's description of the painting, Hassam's work was likely painted in East Hampton, where the artist spent his final years. References Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art Paintings by Childe Hassam 1909 paintings