  About the Artwork
  
  
  Despite its small size, this watercolor captures the aura of a fine summer day. There is a sense of movement-in the clouds, in the branches of the trees, and In the shimmer of the pond. To best see this work, one must be at least six feet away. Close at hand, details such as the line of plants along the pond become totally abstract. However, at a distance the short fluid strokes of blue, green, and yellow magically combine. The pond with its border emerges, and the luxuriant trees and foliage of a purplish-blue hue take 
on more defined shapes.
  
  
  Title
  Pond at Kew Garden
  
  
  Artwork Date
  1892
  
  Artist
  Camille Pissarro
  
  
  
  Life Dates
  1830-1903
  
  
  
  
  Nationality
  
  
  
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  Some definitions include:
  Belonging to a people having a common origin based on a geography and/or descent and/or tradition and/or culture and/or religion and/or language, or sharing membership in a legally defined nation.
  
  
  
  French
  
  
  
  Culture
  
  
  
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  Medium
  Watercolor over graphite pencil on laid paper
  
  
  Dimensions
  Sheet: 7 × 10 inches (17.8 × 25.4 cm)
  Framed: 14 1/2 × 17 1/2 × 2 inches (36.8 × 44.5 × 5.1 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Drawings
  
  
  Department
  Prints, Drawings &amp; Photographs
  
  
  Credit
  Bequest of John S. Newberry
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum’s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems—no longer assigned—that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  65.222
  
  
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