It must have been a strange time in the late 19th century when America made its shift from being a nation of farmers to a land of factories. Interestingly, American Impressionists had begun crafting a visual narrative to document the period - later exhibited as The Artist's Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement from 1887 to 1920. This exhibition began at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and ended at the Florence Griswold Museum, Connecticut and included impressionist paintings of open countryside and fast-changing cities.