Monet's Living Masterpiece:
The Gardens at Giverny
January 15, 1pm
 

The Middletown Garden Club is pleased to present a talk by noted art historian Rhea Higgins on January 15, 2026 at 1:00 p.m. at the Durham Community Center, 144 Pickett Lane in Durham. The program is free and open to the public. The Community Center is handicapped accessible.
Rhea Higgins taught for many years in the Art History department in the College of Arts and Sciences at the University of Hartford. She holds a BA from Smith College and an MAT from Harvard. She also taught at Wesleyan in the Graduate Liberal Studies Department. Her particular area of expertise is 19th century European painting, with an emphasis on post-Impressionist artists. Her talk will include both contemporary photos and Monet’s paintings of the gardens in bloom, the waterlily ponds and the interior of his home known as the pink house as well.