One hundred years ago a German art history professor suggested that many great artists develop “late life” styles that are significantly different from and more adventurous than the work produced in their youth or middle age. Voltaire, at the end of Candide advocated “cultivating one’s garden” as a response to the injustice and violence of the world. At the end of his life, Claude Monet did both of these things. This talk will explore “Late Monet In The Garden.”