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Paris as Proving Ground: Part I |
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Winslow Homer (1836–1910)
A Summer Night, 1890
Oil on canvas; 30 1/4 x 40 1/8 in. (76.8 x 101.9 cm)
Exposition Universelle, 1900
Musée d'Orsay, Paris
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By 1890 Homer was painting broadly and suggestively. In this canvas, he transformed a party of neighbors gathered outside his studio at Prouts Neck, Maine, into a mysterious event. Two women dance on the porch, their forms silhouetted against a silvery moonlit sea. The artist won a gold medal for this painting and three other major oils from the 1890s at the 1900 Exposition Universelle. The French government purchased A Summer Night for the Musée du Luxembourg, which showed works by living artists.
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