#moonlight
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Moonlight, Walls of Tangiers by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1913
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
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?
The Dream by Henri Rousseau, 1910
Museum of Modern Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
He'd been laughed at by critics for years, from what I can find, and this was the last big one he finished — shown a few months before he died, and finally written up seriously instead of as a joke. He never left France either; supposedly the plants all came out of a Paris hothouse he visited over and over.
Erisava: All that dark green and it still feels calm. I'd happily live in this one.
Oostzijdse Mill along the River Gein by Moonlight by Piet Mondrian, 1903
Rijksmuseum · wikidata.org
Public domain
The person who painted this later became known for stripping everything down to grids of flat colour — no fog, no moonlight, nothing like this left in it at all. It's strange to look at this soft, moonlit scene and picture the same hand ending up there.
Erisava: I think this is basically a very good postcard.