TitleTwilight
Artist
William Hart
(1823-1894)
Daten.d.
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsUnframed: 12 × 22 in.
Framed: 21 5/8 × 31 5/8 × 3 1/4 in.
SignedSigned lower left: "W[m.?] HART".
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of James A. Suydam, 1865
Object number546-P
Label TextA fellow tenant of the Tenth Street Studio Building in lower manhattan with James A. Suydam and other members of their circle, William Hart helped to codify their shared aesthetic principles in a series of lectures delivered at the Brooklyn Academy of Design in 1865. Entitled "The Field and the Easel, " Hart's lectures described art as a balance between documents of specific sites and embodiments of poetic sentiment. "Twilight" offers an example of this balanced approach, depicting the outskirts of a village during the ebbing moments of daylight as the campfire and homefire match the sunset in color and warmth.Collections
- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
