The Trees, Early Afternoon, France
William A. Harper American, born Canada
This rare work by the Black American landscape painter Harper depicts a bucolic scene in the French countryside. Canadian born and Chicago trained, he also studied informally in Paris with Henry Ossawa Tanner, the leading African American expatriate artist of his generation. Harper’s interest in painting regional subjects outside Paris’s urban environs was shared by many artists in these years. In transitional works such as this scene, he revealed the influence on his art of the French Barbizon painters, as well as the Impressionists and Post-Impressionists.
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