TitleTwilight
Attributed ArtistAttributed to
Jervis McEntee
(1828 - 1891)
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MediumOil on canvas mounted on panel
DimensionsUnframed: 20 1/8 × 35 7/8 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number1389-P
Label TextAlthough the early twentieth-century records are not clear on this point, 1389-P is believed to be one of two large works by McEntee which were bequeathed to the National Academy by James Suydam. (The other was the Melancholy Days which had made McEntee's reputation when shown at the Academy annual of 1860; Suydam was already its owner at that time. Clearly recognized in the Suydam bequest, "The Melancholy Days Have Come," as it was known, was also recognized by the 1940s as missing from the collection.)In Autumn Twilight the treatment of the leafless trees, the scraggy brown foreground, and the thick, monochromatic grey paint which covers the entire sky with the exception of a thin band of light on the horizon are all characteristic of McEntee's work. This line of light, seen through the thin tree branches, might have constituted the "rich effects" which the critic of the New York Evening Post commended when the Suydam-owned Twilight was exhibited at the National Academy.
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