+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about his Robert Gerrard work +++++ "As a young artist exploring my style, I attempted to find inspiration from the French Impressionist viewpoint. I created a brush name, "Robert Girrard", that allowed me to create paintings with the carefree abandon of Monet, Renoir, and the other grand masters of the Impressionist style. By using the Girrard brush name, I have achieved absolute artistic freedom. This freedom led to a joyful experimentation that resulted in numerous breakthroughs and advances in my artistic techniques and talents. Accomplished in the creation of mood and atmosphere in landscape, the broadened palette I acquired during the Girrard years allowed new dimensions to be employed in how I handled the subtle beauties of the qualities in a broad variety of contexts." ~~Thomas Kinkade

+++++ What Thomas Kinkade said about this work +++++ "The City of Lights inspires many memories for me, both as an artist and as a romantic. When my wife Nanette and I were first married we promised each other that on some future anniversary we would visit Paris for the first time together. On our third anniversary we fulfilled that dream, and my artistic heart was forever hanged.Wandering the city I was greeted by the same boulevards that inspired master impressionists like Monet, Pissarro and Renoir a century ago. I couldn’t resist donning my beret and attempting to embody their artistic vision of color and light. In Morning on the Boulevard I create a mood of classic impressionism with a subject befitting the French masters of the past. Spreading chestnut trees, horse drawn carriages, and period fashions suggest a geateel era, and the vigorous brushstrokes and dappled sunlight is pure impressionism. This is a sunny summer morning that suggests a “boulevard of dreams” from long ago." ~~Thomas Kinkade