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The World's Fair Centennial International Exhibition (1876) in Philadelphia inspired the quest for 'olden tyme' plants and poetry, magically created at Appledore by Celia Thaxter and painted by Childe Hassam. In 1893 Chicago hosted the World's Columbian Exposition which featured murals Primitive Woman by Mary Fairchild MacMonnies facing Modern Woman by Mary Cassatt. Three generations of American artists including Frederick Frieseke, tired of narrow artistic traditions at home, sought the greater freedom of France and the comforts of the Hotel Baudy in Giverny. Impressions of sunshine in gardens on both sides of the Atlantic through painters, plants and personalities.