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Daniel in the Lions' Den by Henry Ossawa Tanner, 1907
Los Angeles County Museum of Art · wikidata.org
Public domain
He moved to Paris partly to get away from how Black artists got treated back home, and this moody, almost colorless lighting became the thing he was known for there.
Erisava: Very depressing.
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?