Indian Summer
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Object Details
- Artist
- J. Francis Murphy, born Oswego, NY 1853-died New York City 1921
- Luce Center Label
- J. Francis Murphy created intimate landscape scenes that were painstakingly produced. His process required applying one overall wash of paint to the canvas while he was outside so that he could capture the dominant colors of the landscape. He would let the canvas dry for up to a year before completing the painting in his studio. With its spindly trees, soft yellow-green fields and sweeping clouds, Indian Summer conjures the hazy quality of a memory or dream. (Burke, “J. Francis Murphy,” American Paintings in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, vol. III, 1980)
- Credit Line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
- 1903
- Object number
- 1909.7.51
- Restrictions & Rights
- CC0
- Type
- Painting
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 16 1/4 x 22 in. (41.2 x 56.0 cm)
- See more items in
- Smithsonian American Art Museum Collection
- Department
- Painting and Sculpture
- On View
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor, 30A
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Luce Foundation Center, 4th Floor
- Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Topic
- Landscape\plain
- Landscape\season\autumn
- Architecture Exterior\domestic\house
- Record ID
- saam_1909.7.51
- Metadata Usage (text)
- CC0
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/vk73a787ea4-836f-48dd-9c4e-82441eb313b5
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