Monet's Water Lilies explores Monet's fascination with the water garden and why it was for him an inexhaustible inspiration for hundreds of studies and paintings. Monet spent his last thirty years attempting to capture on canvas the luminosity and transparency of water lilies. Vivian Russell's superb photographs reflect the quality that Monet sought in his paintings -- the emotional and physical experience of being by the pond. Monet's water lily paintings are shown here juxtaposed with contemporary photography of plants and ponds and archival photos of the painter and his famous garden at Giverny. Russell has photographed many of the varieties Monet ordered for his pond in dramatic close-up to show their extraordinary beauty. Her sensibility as a writer and her expertise as a photographer combine to make Monet's Water Lilies a wonderfully fresh vision of Monet's art.