Explore the MFA's collection of paintings by Claude Monet (1840–1926), one of the largest outside of Paris, which is representative of the various phases of the artist's career: from his early forays into plein-air landscape painting in the 1860s, through his association with the Impressionists beginning in the 1870s, into the 1880s when he increasingly became interested in the effects of light on fixed subjects at different times of day, culminating in his series paintings of the 1890s and early twentieth century.