“He definitely deserves to be recognized as one of the most innovative painters; standing with one leg in the 19th century, but really with the other leg in the modern age,” said Christoph Heinrich, Director of the Denver Art Museum, now home to the country’s largest Monet exhibit in more than two decades.
Check out this video on master artist Claude Monet by CBS Sunday Morning:
Monet captured impressionism in the 19th century, and the modern art age of the 20th.