Lane Library is proud to present an original exhibit, “What Degas and Monet Saw.” The exhibit appears on the first floor of the library in two adjacent rooms, immediately beyond the entrance to the library. The exhibit showcases the scholarship of Dr. Michael Marmor, professor and past chair of the Department of Ophthalmology at Stanford. Dr. Marmor has explored the ways in which changes in eyesight may have affected the styles of a variety of visual artists. This exhibit features Dr. Marmor's investigation of two famous Impressionist painters, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) and Claude Monet (1840-1926). To mount the exhibit, Lane Library had collaborated with major art museums in London, Paris, New York, St. Petersburg, and elsewhere. The exhibit features not only reproductions of important works by Degas and Monet, but also computer simulations by Dr. Marmor that illustrate how these paintings may have appeared to the artists themselves. As Dr. Marmor has indicated, “We understand better from these simulations what Degas and Monet struggled with as their vision failed.” The exhibit also examines changes over time of the ways in which eye problems have been diagnosed and treated. This includes a display of historical medical instruments from the Lane Archives, which show the kinds of tools that have been used to respond to problems of vision in the past.