This painting depicts a landscape with rolling green hills viewed from an elevated perspective. Closest to us, the light green hills on the left are covered with yellowish grass. A dense forest of dark green trees is on the right at the bottom of the slopes. In the distance, towards the high horizon, the hills appear to flatten out, leading to a small white building with a red roof. The sky above is light blue with soft white clouds. The brushstrokes are soft.

Gallery mode Full size at the museum

Window mode follows your eyes with your camera, in this browser only: no picture or position leaves your device.

Flying Shadows

painter Kenyon Cox (American, 1856 - 1919)

1883

Medium: oil on canvas
Classification: Painting
Dimensions: overall: 76.2 × 92.08 cm (30 × 36 1/4 in.) ; framed: 101.92 × 118.11 × 4.29 cm (40 1/8 × 46 1/2 × 1 11/16 in.)
Culture: American
Museum: National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line: Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1922)
Rights: Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed

View at the National Gallery of Art

More by Kenyon Cox

See all

More like this

See all