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Painter:
Speight, Francis 1896-1989  Search this
Medium:
Oil on canvas
Type:
Paintings
Owner/Location:
Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Broad & Cherry Streets Philadelphia Pennsylvania 19102
Date:
1931
Notes:
"Manayunk and Other Places: Paintings and Drawings by Francis Speight, A Retrospective Exhibition Organized by The Pennsylvania State University," University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University, Museum of Art, 1974, no. 13.
"Francis Speight: A Retrospective Exhibition," Raleigh, NC: North Carolina Museum of Art, 1961, no. 8.
James A. Michener Art Museum, 2009.
Summary:
Late afternoon scene depicting a two houses on a street, with the sun low in the sky casting one house entirely in shadow and the other in bright sunlight. In the foreground the long shadow of a telephone pole falls across the street, and in the background houses along a hillside are visible through the bare branches of a small tree.
Topic:
Landscape--Time--Afternoon  Search this
Landscape--Road  Search this
Architecture exterior--Domestic--House  Search this
Control number:
IAP 8A930013
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_403798