Moonlight

Artist Oscar Edmund Berninghaus (American, 1874 - 1952)

Mediumoil on canvas board

Dimensions10 x 11 7/8 inches (25.4 x 30.2 cm)
Frame: 12 × 13 3/4 × 1 inches (30.5 × 34.9 × 2.5 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.24.7

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionHorizontal oil painting depicting the yard outside a low adobe structure in the moonlight. Several horses stand clustered near the center of the image, next to the adobe structure, which had a bright blue door and one lit window. Long shadows stretch across the dirt of the yard in the foreground.

ProvenanceArtist; by inheritance to his wife Winifred Berninghaus, Taos, New Mexico; purchased November 29, 1953 by H.J. Lutcher Stark [1887-1965]; bequeathed September 2, 1965 to the Nelda C. and H.J. Lutcher Stark Foundation; accessioned to the Stark Museum of Art

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