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TITLE:
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Harvest Time
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CATEGORY:
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Paintings
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MATERIALS:
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Oil on canvas
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MARKINGS:
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Signed lower right
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SIZE:
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h: 34 x w: 50 in / h: 86.4 x w: 127 cm
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STYLE:
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Impressionism (ca. 1860s-1880s)
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PRICE*:
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DESCRIPTION:
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Harvest Time shows a continuation of Dawson-Watson’s interest in peasant subject matter but there is no longer an academic composition. Instead, this haphazard view shows only a wedge of sky in the upper right. We are immersed in the field, which contains bravura brushwork and subtle violet shadows. Other impressionist elements include the violet-toned roofs near the upper edge of the canvas, as well as the unusual composition, mentioned above. The painter has convincingly conveyed a hot summer day and the figures suggest spatial recession. A later description in 1906 of the artist as a "painter of light" applies here: "one always feels in studying one of his compositions that the whole field is flooded with the light of out-of-doors."
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