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New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
Study For Night Silence, Glouchester [Sic], Va.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.
New photography by Shannon Ruff captured with a digital camera-2007.

Study For Night Silence, Glouchester [Sic], Va.

Artist Eliot Clark
CultureAmerican
Date1955
MediumPastel | Paper
DimensionsOverall: 9 1/4 x 10 1/2 in. (23.5 x 26.7 cm)
InscribedSigned and dated lower right: Eliot Clark 1955
Credit LineGift of Mark A. Clark in honor of Ann Dearsley Vernon
Object number2002.6.1
Not on view
DescriptionThis is a pastel on paper drawing. It depicts a street scene at night in Gloucester, Virginia. A man walks in front of a tall, brown building; a white building is in the center background.

ProvenanceExhibited by the family at the Hammer Galleries, New York, 1981; Auslew Gallery, Norfolk, Va., November 1981; Purchased by Mark Clark, 1981; Gift of Mark A. Clark in honor of Ann Dearsley Vernon, 2002. Exhibition History"Eliot Clark, American Impressionist 1883-1980," Hammer Galleries, New York, October 6 -- October 24, 1981. Auslew Gallery, Norfolk, Va., November 1981. Published References_Eliot Clark, American Impressionist 1883-1980_, exh. cat., Hammer Galleries, New York, Ny., 1981. *Oil on masonite painting of the same scene.
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