World Series Wager
Milwaukee Art Museum Bets a Monet on a Brewers World Series Victory
The Milwaukee Art Museum and Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg are putting art and hometown pride on the line with a friendly World Series wager. Each museum is backing its team with a painting by Claude Monet. The museum on the losing side will lend its painting to the winning team’s hometown for a victory lap in the galleries.
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Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), “Waterloo Bridge, Sunlight Effect”, ca. 1900 (dated 1903). Oil on canvas. Milwaukee Art Museum, Bequest of Mrs. Albert T. Friedmann, M1950.3.
Claude Monet (French, 1840–1926), “Houses of Parliament: Effect of Fog, London”, 1904. Oil on canvas. 32 1/2 × 36 1/2 in. Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, Partial gift of Charles C. and Margaret Stevenson Henderson and Museum purchase 1979.5
