Lake Effect

N 1885, AS Claude Monet’s dealer, Paul Durand-Ruel, prepared for an exhibition of the Impressionist’s work in New York, Monet fretted about his paintings being sent to “the land of the Yankees” and told Durand-Ruel that he hoped that at least some could be kept in Paris, “the only place where there is still a little taste.” In that latter comment he was wrong. There was at least one other place—or within the next few years there would be—where there was not only taste but specifically a taste for Monet,