Winter Twilight

1947

James Swann

Associated Names
James Swann

Artist, American, 1905 - 1985

Miniature Print Society

Publisher

The image shows a snowy path with bare trees overhead. In the distance, there are buildings against a twilight sky transitioning from yellows to grays. The brushstrokes or drawing techniques give the scene an ethereal quality. The color palette includes cooler blues and whites in the foreground contrasting with warmer golden hues near the buildings and streetlamps. Footprints lead to a bench with a lone figure in the distance.
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    color etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Corcoran Collection (Bequest of Frank B. Bristow)

  • Dimensions

    plate: 10 × 7.62 cm (3 15/16 × 3 in.)
    sheet: 19.21 × 12.7 cm (7 9/16 × 5 in.)

  • Accession Number

    2015.19.1411

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Czestochowski 1990, no. 167

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Frank B. Bristow, Falls Church, Virginia; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 1968; acquired 2015 by the National Gallery of Art

Associated Names

Bibliography

1990

  • Czestochowski, Joseph S. James Swann: In Quest of a Printmaker, with Presentation Prints of the Chicago Society of Etchers, Prairie Print Makers, and the Woodcut Society. Iowa: Cedar Rapids Museum of Art, 1990, p. 65, no. 167.

Inscriptions

lower left in graphite: Winter Twilight; lower right in graphite: James Swann

Markings

stamped center verso in black ink: F.B.B. [circled]

Wikidata ID

Q77012731

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