Night

1892

David Young Cameron

Associated Names
David Young Cameron

Artist, Scottish, 1865 - 1945

This print features a dark shape in a twisting landscape under a radiant sky. The central shape looks like a cloaked figure with their back to us, but no details of their body or face are visible. The landscape behind them is filled with swirling lines suggesting a path or river leading through dark hills towards a distant horizon. In the sky above, the sun appears to set, thick rays of light emanating outwards. The dark silhouettes of a few birds are visible. The word "NIGHT" is displayed at the bottom of the print, and below that are the words "D.Y. Cameron".
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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    etching on laid paper

  • Credit Line

    Rosenwald Collection

  • Dimensions

    plate: 12.3 × 5.4 cm (4 13/16 × 2 1/8 in.)
    sheet: 14 × 6.4 cm (5 1/2 × 2 1/2 in.)

  • Accession Number

    1943.3.2290

  • Catalogue Raisonné

    Rinder 1932, no. 147

Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Lessing Julius Rosenwald [1891-1971], Philadelphia, (Lugt 1932d); gift to National Gallery of Art, 1943.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1932

  • Rinder, Frank. D.Y. Cameron, an illustrated catalogue of his etchings and drypoints, 1887-1932. Glasgow: Jackson, Wylie and Company, 1932.

Inscriptions

in plate bottom right: DYCameron / NIGHT; below plate lower right in graphite: D.Y. Cameron; verso bottom center by later hands in graphite: R147 k7679

Watermarks

none

Wikidata ID

Q64954687

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