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May Night, Willard Leroy Metcalf, 1906
Willard LeRoy Metcalf, portraitWillard LeRoy MetcalfAmerican, 1858–1925

May Night

1906 · Painting

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National Gallery of Art

Washington, D.C., United States

It belongs to the collection, but is not on display at present.

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About the painting

May Night is a 1906 oil painting by American Impressionist Willard Metcalf. It is a nocturne depicting the home of Florence Griswold, now the Florence Griswold Museum in Old Lyme, Connecticut. It was the first contemporary painting purchased by the Corcoran Gallery of Art, and is Metcalf's "most celebrated work."

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2014.136.6

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PaintingsOilAmerican paintingModernism20th centuryAmericanRealist

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