Denver Art Museum

What more could there possibly be to say about Impressionist painter Claude Monet? A lot, it turns out. In this five-part podcast series, Stefania Van Dyke, senior interpretive specialist at the Denver Art Museum, shares conversations with non-art experts, who respond to Monet’s work through the lens of their unique expertise. You’ll hear from a Paris historian, an aquatics curator, a geologist, a therapeutic horticulturalist, and a weather historian. This podcast was produced by Postmodern Company in conjunction with the Denver Art Museum’s exhibition, “Claude Monet: The Truth of Nature,” on view from October 21, 2019 through February 2, 2020.

Jim Fleming, a historian at Colby College who focuses on weather and climate, closely examines Monet’s paintings of snowy landscapes, and talks about how the artist captured the humid haze of Venice and the “pea soup” smog of London.