id:			164314
accession number:	2005.4
share license status:	CC0
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Evening Mood-Lidingö, 1900. Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862–1915). Oil on canvas; framed: 94 x 172.4 x 5.1 cm (37 x 67 7/8 x 2 in.); unframed: 90.1 x 168.6 cm (35 1/2 x 66 3/8 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund 2005.4

title:				Evening Mood-Lidingö
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creation date:			1900
creation date earliest:		1900
creation date latest:		1900
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creditline:			Mr. and Mrs. William H. Marlatt Fund
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culture:	Sweden, 20th century
technique:	oil on canvas
department:	Modern European Painting and Sculpture
collection:	Mod Euro - Painting 1800-1960
type:		Painting
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CREATORS

* Eugène Jansson (Swedish, 1862–1915)  - artist

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measurements: Framed: 94 x 172.4 x 5.1 cm (37 x 67 7/8 x 2 in.); Unframed: 90.1 x 168.6 cm (35 1/2 x 66 3/8 in.)
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	inscription:	Unsigned; inscribed on the stretcher in blue ink, "A. Jansson' (the artist's brother) and "HERR R. BERGH, 40 BAS 4 TR OG JANSSON'.  Inscribed on the stretcher in red ink "G.J.'
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CURRENT EXHIBITIONS

	title:		Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh and more
	opening date:   2016-10-22T00:00:00
	<i>Mystical Landscapes: Masterpieces from Monet, Van Gogh and more</i>. Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario M5T 1G4, Canada (organizer) (October 22, 2016-February 12, 2017).

	title:		Stories From Storage
	opening date:   2021-02-07T05:00:00
	<i>Stories From Storage</i>. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (February 7-May 16, 2021).

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LEGACY EXHIBITIONS

* League of Artists' Annual Exhibition. Stockholm, Sweden (1900).

* League of Artists' Annual Exhibition. Stockholm, Sweden (1901).

* The Swedish Vision: Landscape and Figurative Painting 1885-1920. Shepherd Gallery, New York, NY (Fall 1985).

* Eugene Jansson. Liljevalchs Art Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (1998).

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PROVENANCE

	Richard Bergh [1858-1919], Stockholm, Sweden friend of the artist
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	Adrian Bergh, son of Richard Bergh, Stockhom, Sweden
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	The Bergh Family Collection, Stockholm, Sweden until the 1980s
	date: -1980s
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	(Claes Moser, Stockholm, Sweden, sold to the Cleveland Museum of Art)
	date: -2005
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	The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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fun fact:
Jansson, known as the "Blue Painter," was called "Paraffin Jansson" by other artists because the light in his paintings reminded them of the light from the paraffin (kerosene) lamps widely used in houses at the time.

digital description:
The swirling brushstrokes and telescopic perspective in this view of a field near Stockholm, Sweden, converge on the dark mass of trees and dying sunset in the center. Feelings of melancholy and loneliness are relieved only by the appearance of the first evening star. Although little known in the United States, Eugène Janssen was one of the most important artists of Scandinavian modernism. He became aware of the works of the Norwegian Symbolist Edvard Munch as early as 1884 and shared Munch’s ambition of exploring psychological states of mind rather than adhering to external appearances.

wall description:
Jansson has been described as the supreme representative of the lyrical style of “mood” painting in Scandinavian art. The swirling brushstrokes and telescopic perspective in this view of a field near Stockholm draw the viewer toward the isolated trees in the distance. All lines converge at this black mass, silhouetted by the final remnants of the sunset. An atmosphere of melancholy and loneliness are relieved only by the appearance of the first evening star.
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RELATED WORKS

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CITATIONS

	
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	Shepherd Gallery. The Swedish Vision: Landscape and Figurative Painting 1885-1920 : Shepherd Gallery, New York, October 16th to December 7th, 1985, an Exhibition. Stockholm: Moser &amp; Klang, 1985.
	page number: 	cat. no. 36
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	Lochnan, Katharine Jordan, ed. Mystical Landscapes: From Vincent Van Gogh to Emily Carr. Munich: DelMonico Books Prestel, 2016.
	page number: 	169, 177
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IMAGES

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