# Samoan Scene, in 20th-century United States

Louis M. Eilshemius painted this in 1908, aged 44. It is now at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, DC.

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## The work

- Date: 1908
- Medium: Oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions: 23 1/4 x 30 in. (59.1 x 76.4 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, 66.1730
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[Louis M. Eilshemius](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/louis-m-eilshemius), New Jersey, 1864–1941

Eilshemius studied in New York and at the Académie Julian in Paris and travelled widely, as far as Samoa, painting romantic landscapes and nudes that found few admirers.

4 works in the collection.

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