Two from the neighborhood

Claude Monet | Adolphe Monet Reading in a Garden (1866)

“MONET: THE EARLY YEARS,” the new exhibition at San Francisco’s Legion of Honor, provides convincing evidence that Claude Monet had special talent from an early age — even if many of the paintings don’t rank among his greatest hits. Two standouts come from local collections: a painting of the artist’s father reading in a garden from the Larry Ellison Collection, and boats at rest from Ann and Gordon Getty.

Claude Monet | Boats in the Port of Honfleur (1866)