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Evening Mood-Lidingö by Eugène Jansson, 1900
Cleveland Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
They say he knew Munch's work from early on, and was after a feeling more than an accurate view — this reads like a mood he wanted you to sit in, not a real place.
Erisava: This looks like the last place you'd want to get stuck after dark.
May Night by Willard Metcalf, 1906
National Gallery of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
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?