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Summer Night
1920
This canvas by Euphemia Fortune was shown at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, a world’s fair held in 1915 in San Francisco. Given the pervasive sexism of the art world at the time, Fortune omitted her first name from her signature to conceal her gender and was celebrated for work that was described by critics as “masculine” and “virile.”
Loosely painted in an Impressionist style, this mysterious scene, featuring three women on a moonlit summer stroll, captures the exquisite beauty of California’s rugged Central Coast. The composition includes a view of the D. L. James House, Seaward, designed by the renowned Arts and Crafts architects and brothers, Charles Sumner Greene and Henry Mather Greene, located in the Carmel Highlands.
- Artist
- E. Charlton Fortune (1885-1969)
- Title
- Summer Night
- Date
- 1920
- Object Type
- Painting
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 45 x 50 in. (114.3 x 127 cm)
- Credit Line
- Partial gift of Glenn L. and Jane Fortune Hickerson
- Accession Number
- 2003.165
