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Calligraphic Interior, by H. Lyman Saÿen, ca. 1915

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H. Lyman Saÿen

born Philadelphia, PA 1875-died Philadelphia, PA 1918

Calligraphic Interiorca. 1915

watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard

sheet: 10 x 14 in. (25.5 x 35.5 cm)

Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum · 1968.19.12

H. Lyman Saÿen painted this in about 1915, aged 40. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC. More about this work

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Format

Archival pigment inks on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a 308 gsm cotton paper, with a white border.

Size

At this size the museum's file prints at 168 ppi: sharp at arm's length, a little softer than the smaller sizes up close.

Size
20 × 16 in · image 17¾ × 12½
Paper
Hahnemühle Photo Rag, 308 gsm
Price
$56

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About this work

H. Lyman Saÿen painted this in about 1915, aged 40. It is now at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

How it was made

Watercolour
Pigment in gum arabic, thinned with water and laid in transparent washes. Nothing white is painted: the light is the paper showing through.

H. Lyman Saÿen

born Philadelphia, PA 1875-died Philadelphia, PA 1918

Saÿen trained at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts while working as an electrical engineer, patenting improvements to X-ray tubes. In Paris from 1906 he joined Henri Matisse’s classes and absorbed the bold colour of Fauvism. Back in Philadelphia from 1914, he was among the city’s earliest modernists, moving towards flat, decorative, increasingly abstract compositions in the few years before his early death.

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Public domain. The Smithsonian American Art Museum has dedicated this image to the public domain under CC0, so anyone may copy, adapt and use it, for any purpose, without asking. Our prints and files are reproductions made from the museum’s image; the museum doesn’t endorse them.

Object number
1968.19.12
Credit
Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Type
Painting
Department
Graphic Arts
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