The Trees, Early Afternoon, France

ca. 1905

On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 761

In this bucolic scene in the French countryside, Canadian-born landscape painter Harper incorporated experimental artistic methods used by French Barbizon painters, Impressionists, and Post-Impressionists. His painterly brushstrokes and dark outlines of tree branches create a sense of on-the-spot immediacy. After graduating from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, in 1901, Harper continued his formal education in Paris at the Académie Julian. He later sought training from the leading expatriate painter Henry Ossawa Tanner, who, like Harper, was a Black American artist.

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Title: The Trees, Early Afternoon, France
Artist: William A. Harper (American (born Canada), Cayuga 1873–1910 Mexico City)
Date: ca. 1905
Culture: American
Medium: Oil on canvas
Dimensions: 20 × 26 in. (50.8 × 66 cm)
Credit Line: Marguerite and Frank A. Cosgrove Jr. Fund, 2015
Object Number: 2015.587
Curatorial Department: The American Wing

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