b'since all her park paintings belong to an art tradition dating back to around 1500, when Raphael, Giorgione, Titian, and Bosch all made paintings of ancient Greeks or Romans in harmony and peace with nature. By the 18th century, Watteau modernized the idea by showing the figures as aristocrats in their elaborate gardens, and Gainsborough went so far as to show pedes-trians out-of-doors in a tree-lined London street. Beginning with Manet and his images of living Parisians in public gardens or on a picnic, the theme of park relaxation, whether imagined in some Golden Age or documenting modern life, became a favorite theme for both Impressionist and Post-Im-pressionist artists dedicated to capturing light and color above all else. Indeed, last year, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presented Visions of Arcadia, a survey of these early modern park paintings, culminating in Left: Detail from Roller Blades.Right: Detail from the Open-Air Concert, by Titian, painted around 1510.'