Late Evening (before 1920): Art, History and Details

Late Evening (before 1920) is in the Cleveland Museum of Art collection. The museum's creator attribution is Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968).

The work and its context

The museum's open-access catalogue describes the work:

This dark landscape is difficult to parse due to its shaded and overlapping forms. Peets was a skilled printmaker who practiced many techniques but avoided experimentation, preferring to perfect his art in the established tradition. This image suggests this practice in its use of mezzotint: the various layers blend together and add softness around the edges of forms that evoke wilderness during the late hours of the day.

Object facts

• Title: Late Evening
• Date: before 1920
• Creator attribution: Orville Houghton Peets (American, 1884–1968)
• Culture: America, Ohio, Cleveland
• Type: Print
• Technique: mezzotint
• Dimensions: Plate: 14.9 x 12.7 cm (5 7/8 x 5 in.)
• Collection: PR - Mezzotint
• Department: Prints
• Accession number: 1920.138

A detail from the museum

While in high school, Peets created political cartoons that were published in The Cleveland Leader and The London Daily Mail.

Collection credit

Gift of Charles T. Brooks

Further reading listed by the museum

• "Accessions." The Bulletin of the Cleveland Museum of Art 7, no. 5 (1920): 70-73.

View the collection record

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