In November 1872, at sunrise, Claude Monet sat at his hotel room window and looked to the port of Le Havre. He painted the hazy scene in milky blues, soft orange, dashes of lavender. Monet went on to paint the scene many times, at different hours and from various viewpoints, but Impression, Sunrise became the most famous of these. Two years later, in April 1874, it was shown in a group exhibition in Paris called “Painters, Sculptors, Engravers, etc. Inc.” That word in the title—Impression—inspired art critic Louis Leroy’s review of the show, titled “The Exhibition of the Impressionists.” The word stuck and a movement was born. It’s now 150 years since Monet painted that rising sun in Le Havre. “Facing the Sun” pays tribute to that work. —Elena Clavarino