This forum features a striking new view of Monet, the quintessential impressionist showing him to be a far more complicated figure than previously acknowledged, fiercely competitive and ambitious, as well as sensitive and inventive.

Monet created more than 2,500 paintings, drawings, and pastels that radically altered the way art was made and understood. Paul Tucker, UMass professor of art, reflects on the artist’s life work as an evolving enterprise that evolved over his lifetime and was driven by Monet’s steadfast belief in the power of art to express ideas.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Exhibition: Monet and Boston: Legacy Illuminated, 2021

Paul Tucker, a professor emeritus of art at the University of MA, is one of the foremost authorities on Monet, the quintessential impressionist.