# Calligraphic Interior, in The 20th century

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

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## The work

- Date: ca. 1915
- Medium: watercolor on paper mounted on paperboard
- Dimensions: sheet: 10 x 14 in. (25.5 x 35.5 cm)
- Type: Painting
- Courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, 1968.19.12
- Licence: CC0 1.0

## The artist

[H. Lyman Saÿen](https://www.ochreeditions.com/artists/h-lyman-sayen), 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.

3 works in the collection.

## Walk on

- [More by H. Lyman Saÿen](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/artist/h-lyman-sayen?hang=751) (3 works)
- [More Early modernism](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/style/early-modernism?hang=751) (68 works)
- [Now at Smithsonian Institution](https://www.ochreeditions.com/galleries/era/museum-smithsonian?hang=751) (300 works)

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