KANSAS CITY, MO.- Visitors to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art on June 24 and 25 and July 1 and 2 will be able to observe Museum conservation specialists as they perform various scientific examinations on Claude Monet’s Water Lilies. The examination is made possible with an award from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation as part of a $1 million challenge grant. The grant’s purpose is to establish an endowment to provide additional scientific expertise for research and conservation investigation on items in the Museum’s collection. The study of Water Lilies is part of a project to study all of the Museum’s 101 French Impressionist paintings and works of art on paper, which will be featured in a future catalogue. Monet painted three massive water lily canvases depicting the vista from his own gardens in Giverny. The Nelson-Atkins’ Water Lilies measures 14 by 6 feet.