We look down at and across a sun-soaked landscape with tile-roofed, white-stucco buildings and plowed fields in this horizontal painting. Slate-blue shadows cast by trees behind us shade a triangular, grassy outcropping in the lower left corner of the painting. The front edge of the outcropping faces away from us and is lined with gray boulders, perhaps a retaining wall. The land must dip steeply down beyond the boulders, for we look down onto the canopies of the trees lining the wall and the houses tucked up against the ridge. A few white birds fly among the terracotta-red roofs below us.…
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Midsummer Twilight

Willard Leroy Metcalf (American, 1858 - 1925)

c. 1890

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 81.6 x 90.2 cm (32 1/8 x 35 1/2 in.) ; framed: 97.8 x 106.7 x 5.7 cm (38 1/2 x 42 x 2 1/4 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Gift of Admiral Neill Phillips in memory of Grace Hendrick Phillips
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
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