Patrice Anderson
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Last light of October

No.001
Date
Works11 · 2 by women
Words
  • moonlight
  • dusk
  • lantern
  • autumn leaves

This is the hour when color drains out and only the moon or a lamp is left to see by. Shapes flatten into silhouettes, and any warm light reads as the only sign of life.

Pieces

Two dark sailboat silhouettes against a pale yellow moonlit sky and a black sea.
01 source
A dark wooded ravine with a pale thread of waterfall and a hazy moon behind the trees.
02 source
An empty gray room where moonlight from a tall window falls in squares across the floor.
03 source
A soft charcoal drawing of a house and a pointed roof dissolving into the dark.
04 source
A dark etched night scene of tall trees, with a small moon breaking through the branches.
05 source
A steamship on a dark sea, with a full moon lighting a path across the waves.
06 source
A misty gray field at dusk, with low houses and bare trees under a pale moon.
07 source
A hazy orange and brown forest with a small pale house among the trees.
08 source

Type

Last light of October

Gloock by Duarte Pinto · Free on Google Fonts

Lucy Potter's 1791 sampler in dark browns: stitched verses framed by flowers, birds, and trees, with figures and animals along the bottom.
09 source
Alphabet book design (Letters C and K) by Miss L. E. M. Jones, from The Metropolitan Museum of Art
10 source
A work made of color lithograph on cream wove paper.
11 source

Sources

  1. 01Moonlight Marine, Albert Pinkham Ryder, 1870 to 1890. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  2. 02A Waterfall, Moonlight, Ralph Albert Blakelock, by 1886. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  3. 03Moonlight, Strandgade 30, Vilhelm Hammershøi, 1900 to 1906. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  4. 04House at Dusk (La Cité), Georges Seurat, 1881 to 1882. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  5. 05Trees in Moonlight, Theodore Roussel, 1890 to 1900. Art Institute of Chicago.
  6. 06Ship by Moonlight, Ivan Konstantinovich Aivazovsky (Hovhannes Aivazian), undated. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  7. 07Moonlight, Dwight William Tryon, 1887. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  8. 08Autumn Woods, George Inness, 1891 to 1894. Art Institute of Chicago.
  9. 09Sampler, Lucy Potter, 1791. Art Institute of Chicago.
  10. 10Alphabet book design (Letters C and K), Miss L. E. M. Jones, ca. 1830. The Metropolitan Museum of Art.
  11. 11Divan Japonais, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, 1893. Art Institute of Chicago.
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Every image on this board is a public domain work from an open-access museum collection, credited and linked under Sources. No image is made with AI.