Monet was 60 years old when he painted The Artist’s Garden at Giverny. The painting depicts diagonal rows of brightly colored irises and you can almost see the flowers moving in the wind.

But even amid Monet’s hundreds of water lily paintings, the one on display at the Portland Art Museum stands out. Because ...

“We have a lot of art in our museum ... red and yellow chrysanthemums. Monet owned four of the Hokusai prints in the show, including the iris, chrysanthemums, the peonies and the morning ...