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O'Keeffe used light in New York Night (1928/1929) to indicate "warmth and life in the city", though lighted streets and illuminated windows of dark buildings. [5] Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art describes Radiator Building—Night, New York as O'Keeffe's "grandest statement on New York City". [8]
[T]he possibilities of night illumination have barely been touched. . . . Eventually, the night lighting of buildings is going to be studied exactly as Gordon Craig and Norman Bel Geddes have studied stage lighting. Every possible means to obtain an effect will be tried—color, varying sources and direction of light, pattern and movement. . . .
The Starry Night, made by Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh, depicts his memory of the view outside his sanitorium room window at Saint-Rémy-de-Provence (located in southern France) at night. [ 63 ] : 225 Although Van Gogh was not very happy with the painting, [ 64 ] art historian Joachim Pissarro cites The Starry Night as an exemplar of the ...
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Café Terrace at Night is an 1888 oil painting by the Dutch artist Vincent van Gogh. It is also known as The Cafe Terrace on the Place du Forum, and, when first exhibited in 1891, was entitled Coffeehouse, in the evening (Café, le soir). Van Gogh painted Café Terrace at Night in Arles, France, in mid-September 1888. The painting is not signed ...
White House at Night is an oil-on-canvas painting created on 16 June 1890 in the small town of Auvers-sur-Oise by Vincent van Gogh, six weeks before his death. It is displayed at the Hermitage Museum , St. Petersburg.
Sleeping Venus depicts a town square flanked by classical buildings at night. To the right is a building with two horses' heads, based on decorations from the old Cirque Royal in Brussels, [1] and at the back is a closed temple or temple-like building. The square is populated by several nude women with their arms stretched out as in desperation ...
A light tower In front of City Hall, Detroit, Michigan, about 1900. Detroit, Michigan, had a particularly extensive system of light towers, inaugurated in 1882. [6] 122 towers, 175 feet (53 m) tall and 1,000–1,200 feet (300–370 m) apart in downtown Detroit, were shorter, less powerful, and twice as far apart as typically found elsewhere. [7]