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(1845
- 1933) |
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"When
Lingering Light Welcomes Night"
A Late-Victorian Landscape Masterpiece |
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"When
Lingering Light Welcomes Night"
49" x 94 1/4"
Oil on Canvas
1894 |
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Ernest Parton's "When
Lingering Light Welcomes Night" is a masterpiece of late Victorian
landscape painting. It is a moody work which shows the influence of
both the French Barbizon School that the artist encountered in Europe
and the American Hudson River School that influenced Parton growing
up in the riverside community of Hudson, New York. The soft, gray
tones and twilight mood are reminiscent of Camille Corot and the French
plein-air painters, but the diffused light and surface detail reveal
a distinct Hudson River School sensibility. "When Lingering Light
Welcomes Night" was painted for the Annual Exhibition of the
prestigious Royal Academy, which was held in the summer of 1894. |
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