May Night – (Willard Leroy Metcalf) ◄ ก่อน ต่อไป ►

ศิลปิน: Willard Leroy Metcalf

วันที่: 1906

ขนาด: 136 x 128 cm

เทคนิค: Oil On Canvas

Moonlight bathes a grassy lawn, where a woman walks to a building with columns and a triangular roof in this vertical painting. To our left of center, the building glows white. The rest of the landscape is loosely painted with blended strokes, giving it a soft look and making some details difficult to make out. To our right, the woman has brown hair and wears a long white dress that trails on the shadow-dappled lawn. She approaches the front of the building, which has four steps as wide as the building that lead up to four columns. A form at the base of one of the columns suggests another woman wearing a full, white dress sitting at the top of the stairs. A half-round window, flat across the bottom, is dark in the center of the triangular pediment above. The left side of the building is mostly hidden behind tall bushes and a slender tree like a crape myrtle, which reaches off the top edge of the canvas. A dark orange glow is visible from a side window between the bushes, and soft yellow-white light reflects on the backs of the columns and the seated person at the front of the building. Dark blue-green trees stand beyond the building on the right, where a large flowering horse-chestnut tree there dominates the upper right corner of the painting. The sky is clear ocean blue with a handful of stars that show through. The paint is thinly applied so the texture of the canvas shows through in some areas. The artist signed and dated the painting in black in the lower left corner, “W. L. Metcalf 06.”