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Moonlight, Walls of Tangiers by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1913
Apparently a wealthy backer had been funding his trips east for years — it started with a magazine job illustrating the Holy Land — and Morocco kept turning up in his paintings long after. They say he did a whole run of these night scenes there.
Erisava: How is it this bright when it's supposed to be the middle of the night?
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Champs de Mars, the Red Tower by Robert Delaunay, 1911
Delaunay painted the Eiffel Tower more than two dozen times, splitting it into fragments and colour rather than showing it whole.
Erisava: The tower looks like it's falling apart in this one.
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May Night by Willard Metcalf, 1906
According to Wikipedia, the glowing building here is a real house that belonged to a woman named Florence Griswold. It's a museum today, but back then it was just where traveling painters crashed for the summer.
Erisava: Is that a ghost by the columns, or just someone in white?
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Painel do Edifício Andorinha by Belmiro de Almeida, 1934
I couldn't find much about this one beyond the building's name - 'andorinha' means swallow in Portuguese, which the mosaic makes pretty literal.
Erisava: What's a swallow got to do with apartment living?