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Monet’s Minutes: André Dombrowski in Conversation

Impressionism at Hill-Stead Sponsored by Northwest Community Bank Foundation REGISTER HERE A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet’s Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century. Please join us on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 6PM for a public conversation with Professor André Dombrowski about his new book Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time. Dombrowski is Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania and…

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October 9, 2025 @ 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm

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35 Mountain Rd
Farmington, CT United States

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Impressionism at Hill-Stead
Sponsored by Northwest Community Bank Foundation
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A stunning exploration of the vital links between Claude Monet’s Impressionism and the time technologies that helped define modernity in the nineteenth century.
Please join us on Thursday, October 9, 2025 at 6PM for a public conversation with Professor André Dombrowski about his new book Monet’s Minutes: Impressionism and the Industrialization of Time. Dombrowski is Frances Shapiro-Weitzenhoffer Professor of 19th Century European Art at the University of Pennsylvania and a leading authority on French Impressionism. The event will begin with a short presentation by the author followed by a public conversation between him and Oliver O’Donnell, Hill-Stead’s Resident Art Historian. Questions from the audience will be welcomed at the end and the evening will conclude with a reception of wine and cheese. Copies of the book will also be for sale at Hill-Stead Museum’s shop.
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$20 members
$25 non-members
Lecture Series Description:
As part of an ongoing series sponsored by Northwest Community Bank Foundation, Hill-Stead brings distinguished speakers to the museum to give public-facing lectures that relate to the rotating exhibitions, permanent collection, architecture and grounds.

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