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A Summer Evening

Artist Alexander Helwig Wyant (American, 1836 - 1892)

Mediumoil on canvas

Dimensions14 1/8 x 22 7/8 inches (35.9 x 58.1 cm)
Frame: 23 5/8 × 32 1/2 × 4 3/8 inches (60 × 82.6 × 11.1 cm)

Credit LineBequest of H.J. Lutcher Stark, 1965

Object number31.40.5

ClassificationsPaintings

DescriptionHorizontal oil painting depicting a green landscape and a soft setting sun. In the foreground the green grass is spattered with light colored flowers. There is a human figure along with two cows in the midground, at the base of the wall of trees that lead into the low hills visible in the background below the light colored sky.

ProvenancePurchased June 6, 1925 by through (Cannell and Chaffin, Inc., Los Angeles, California) by Miriam Lutcher Stark [Mrs. W.H. Stark, 1859-1936]; by inheritance to her son 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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