The short interval after sunset, when the light goes cool and the outlines soften, drew painters and printmakers back again and again. These works hold that hour: moonlit harbours, evening streets and nocturnes in which blue does most of the work.
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John La Farge, ca. 1885
John Atkinson Grimshaw, 1872
Charles Burchfield, December 1917
Claude Monet, 1903
James Hamilton, ca. 1861
Caspar David Friedrich, ca. 1825–30
Edvard Munch, 1893
Jan van de Velde II, 1626
Thomas Chambers, mid 19th century
Edward Moran, ca. 1893
Hendrick van Steenwijck, the Younger, c. 1610
Claude-Joseph Vernet, 1772