Summer
1903
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 49.8 × 37.2 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-140343
In Summer a woman retreats to a shadowed interior to play quietly on her guitar. White curtains and the figure’s linen gown glow in the light from the window, suggesting the heat of the afternoon outside. Such scenes of solitary women playing music, reading books, or writing letters expressed an idea of domestic peace and refinement that became more desirable as the Gilded Age grew more ambitious…
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Dr. and Mrs. William Henry Holmes
Registry history
- 1903 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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