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Jean Baptiste-Arthur Calame’s excellent display of light and color reminds us all to catch the last bits of sunshine before the summer term ends. Calame is recognized as one of the finest landscape painters after receiving training all over Europe, and this piece donated by Anthony J Drexel is a testament to his skills of observation and technique. The pair laying together on the grass, and the distant blue sea conveys a sense of serenity and peace that only nature can provide in its last days of warmth before the colder weather sets in.Label Type
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Artist Jean Baptiste-Arthur Calame studied under Oswald Achenbach, a Düsseldorf Academy painter whose works are also in the Drexel Founding Collection. Calame was especially skillful in his depiction of light creating a dramatic effect with the strong contrast between the left and right sides of the painting.