TitleAutumn
Artist
Howard Pyle
(1853 - 1911)
Date1900
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 30 × 12 in.
Framed: 36 × 17 × 1 3/4 in.
SignedSigned: "copyright 1900/by Howard Pyle"
SubmissionNA diploma presentation, April 6, 1908
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY
Object number1036-P
Label TextSet against a landscape background of fall foliage, this full length figure of a woman, a representation of the season of autumn, wears a garland and a gown embroidered with red and green decorations. Reproduced in the November 1900 issue of Harper's Monthly Magazine, the work appeared with a caption from "The Yellow of the Leaf," a poem by Bliss Carman: The falling leaf/is at the door;/The autumn wind is on the hill." The painting has subsequently been referred to as Autumn -- Green and Gold, perhaps an erroneous reference to the first line of the second stanza of the poem: "Full of crimson and of gold". When it was exhibited at the Pan-American Exposition, held in Buffalo in 1901, this work received an honorable mention.
