Midsummer Twilight, c. 1890

Inscription

lower left: W. L. METCALF.

Provenance

Purchased before 1900 by Henry Keney Pomeroy [1854-1925], New York and Simsbury, Connecticut; by inheritance to his niece, Grace Hendrick Eustis Phillips [d. 1966, Mrs. Neill Phillips]; her husband, Admiral Neill Phillips [d. 1974], Upperville, Virginia; gift 1976 to NGA.

Exhibition History

1890

Twelfth Exhibition, Society of American Artists, New York, 1890, no. 128.

1893

World's Columbian Exposition, Department of Fine Arts, Chicago, 1893, no. 523.

1900

Fine Arts Exhibit of the United States of America, Exposition Universelle, Paris, 1900, no. 193, as Summer Twilight.

1901

Exhibition of Fine Arts, Pan-American Exposition, Buffalo, New York, 1901, no. 765.

1902

Seventy First Annual Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, 1902, no. 322.

1982

Americans in Brittany and Normandy 1860-1910, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia; Amon Carter Museum of Western Art, Fort Worth; Phoenix Art Museum; National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C., 1982-1983, no. 84.

1999

Paris 1900: 'The American School' at the Universal Exposition, Montclair Art Mus.; Mus. of Am. Art of the Penn. Acad. of the Fine Arts, Phil.; Columbus Mus. of Art; Elvehjem Mus. of Art, Univ. of Wisc., Madison, 1999-2001, no. 76, repro.

Bibliography

1980

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1980: 198, repro.

1980

Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1980: 140, repro.

1981

Williams, William James. A Heritage of American Paintings from the National Gallery of Art. New York, 1981: 190, repro. 192.

1987

De Veer, Elizabeth, and Richard J. Boyle. Sunlight and Shadow: The Life and Art of Willard L. Metcalf. New York, 1987: 44, 62, 63, 199, 200, 218.

1988

Wilmerding, John. American Masterpieces from the National Gallery of Art. Rev. ed. National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., 1988: 160, repro.

1992

American Paintings: An Illustrated Catalogue. National Gallery of Art, Washington, 1992: 236, repro.

1998

Torchia, Robert Wilson, with Deborah Chotner and Ellen G. Miles. American Paintings of the Nineteenth Century, Part II. The Collections of the National Gallery of Art Systematic Catalogue. Washington, D.C., 1998: 8-10, color repro.

1999

Winter's Promise: Willard Metcalf in Cornish, New Hampshire 1909-1920. MacAdam, Barbara J. Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, 1999: 10-11, fig. 2.

2001

Paris 1900: Les artistes Américains à L'exposition Universelle. Exh. cat. Musée Carnavalet, Paris. Paris, 2001: 66 fig. 72, 68.

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