Claude Monet (1840 – 1925), a founding father of Impressionism who disliked the restrictiveness of traditional art, began as a caricature artist, evolving into one of the world’s most extraordinary and important landscape painters. His “Japanese Bridge,” part of a series that captures shifts in color during various phases of daylight, depicts a wooden footbridge that spanned the famous lily pond at his Giverny home in France. The transportive “Japanese Bridge” is an extraordinary water landscape in which Monet’s adeptly imparts the artwork with the depth of a view glimpsed through a window