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image of Midsummer Twilight
Willard Leroy Metcalf (artist)
American, 1858 - 1925
Midsummer Twilight, c. 1890
oil on canvas
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.)
Gift of Admiral Neill Phillips in memory of Grace Hendrick Phillips
1976.50.2
From the Tour: American Impressionists of the Late 1800s and Early 1900s
Object 4 of 7

Exhibition History

1890
Twelfth Exhibition, Society of American Artists, New York, 1890, no. 128.
1893
World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893, no. 523.
1900
Fine Arts Exhibit of the United States of America, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 193, as Summer Twilight.
1901
Exhibition of Fine Arts, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, no. 765.
1902
Seventy First Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902, no. 322.
1982
Americans in Brittany and Normandy 1860-1910, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth; Phoenix Art Museum; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 84.
1999
Paris 1900: 'The American School' at the Universal Exposition, Montclair Art Mus.; Mus. of Am. Art of the Penn. Acad. of the Fine Arts, Phil.; Columbus Mus. of Art; Elvehjem Mus. of Art, Univ. of Wisc., Madison, 1999-2001, no. 76, repro.

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