Mornings with Monet / Rosenstock, Barb

Monet loved to paint what he saw around him, and soon art dealers and collectors were lining up each morning to see as Monet saw. Monet, however, waited only for the light. His brush moved back and forth, chasing sunlight-putting in the arduous work to create an image that seemed to contain no effort at all.

Describes how as a young artist, Claude Monet rejected a traditional life path while embracing initially unpopular new approaches to painting and seeing, launching the French Impressionism movement.