What Would Madame Monet Do? by Barbara Wentzell Jaquith

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Would Madame Monet replace her demure parasol with a resistance as a more fitting "sign of the times if she lived in 2025?

Barbara Wentzell Jaquith
What Would Madame Monet Do?, 2025
Sennelier Pastel on Velvet
Inv: 15
Sold

In Monet's iconic plein air oil painting, The Stroll, he depicted his wife and son in a "genre painting", a simple outdoor family scene. In the original, Madame Monet carries a parasol. But I had to wonder, might she carry a protest sign today instead? What would she do and say? This work is sold and in the collection of one of my favorite activists!

Subject Matter: Resistance Art
Current Location: Private Collection
Collections: Pastels

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Artist CV

Barbara Wentzell Jaquith

Lovering Studio, 478 Navarre Dr, Stone Mountain, Ga 30087

603-828-6057

Education

B.S. in Interdisciplinary Studies with concentrations in Studio Art and Social Work awarded from Plymouth State University (NH)

Experience

I am a multi-disciplinary artist with expertise in a wide variety of mediums. Over the years, my art experience has included mastery of a variety of mediums including oil, acrylic, pastel, watercolor, and line art. I occasionally work in collage. Currently, I am working on a 50-piece pastel project titled A Love Letter to America. The project consists of one plein air pastel painting done in each of the 50 states using a proprietary technique that I call Ambient Observation.

Exhibition Experience

· The Cayman Gallery, Grand Cayman Island

· The Octagon Arts Center, Clearwater, Fl

· Grinders Gallery on Central, St. Pete, Fl

· Stone Soup Gallery in Key West, Fl. (solo)

· Crossroads: Change in Rural America: In 2020, I was privileged to participate in the Smithsonian Institute's traveling exhibit, Crossroads: Change in Rural America

· Fulton County Arts and Culture: In July of 2025, I am exhibiting at an exhibit curated by the Fulton County Arts and Culture Department, Chasing the Light: An Exhibition of Plein Air Painters.

I have experience teaching individual private students as well as groups.

Awards and Grants

Award: Outstanding Group Volunteerism; Governor’s Office of Volunteerism

This federal grant was an award given for facilitating the placement of students in community-based non-profits, including those serving marginalized populations. Several arts and culture organizations were the recipients of student volunteerism through this initiative. I administered this federal grant for Plymouth State University

Award: Citation for Values-Based Leadership from Lutheran Social Services of New England, Inc.

This was an award given for developing community-based programming for the inclusion of marginalized people, especially those with disabilities in creative and life-enriching activities within their home communities.

Publications

Publications: My Home Town: Issues of Creative Inclusion in Community Living; Northeast AAMR Conference

Publication: Toward Equality and Justice in the Community; Family Support 56 Annual Region X Conference

I am pleased to have numerous pieces in private collections. I always appreciate collectors who find a personal connection with my work and want to include it in their working or living space.

Barbara Wentzell Jaquith

Stone Mountain, Georgia

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