- Title
- Sunlight, Late Summer
- Date Made
- 1913
- Medium
- Oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- 30 x 45 in. (76.2 x 114.3 cm)
- Accession Number
- M.82.93
- Collecting Area
- American Art
- Curatorial Notes
This example of Steele’s mature style is characteristic of his interest in expressing the simple beauty of the hills and fields of Indiana while applying impressionist techniques toward the development of a distinctly American school of art. Its free paint handling and informal composition contribute to the sense that it is a fresh transcription of nature. The site is reminiscent of the Salt Creek and nearby smaller Schooner Creek valleys that lie at the foot of the high, wooded crest where Steele’s House of the Singing Winds was located.
- Selected Bibliography
- Phil Freshman. Los Angeles County Museum of Art Report, July 1, 1981-June 30, 1983. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1984.
- Fort, Ilene Susan and Michael Quick. American Art: a Catalogue of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art Collection. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1991.
