Farm in Moonlight
1938
Medium
Gouache on paper board
Dimensions
18 × 20 in. (45.7 × 50.8 cm)
Classification
Drawings
Department
Modern and Contemporary Art
Museum
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Credit
Gift of New York City W. P. A., 1943
Accession Number
43.47.14
Tags
Art Historical Context
**Farm in Moonlight** (1938) by Daniel Koerner the serene mystery of a rural night scene in gouache on paper board, measuring 18 × 20 inches. This intimate landscape, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Modern and Contemporary Art Departmentclassified as a drawing), the quiet beauty of American farms bathed in soft moonlight. Gouache, an opaque watercolor medium prized for its vibrant, matte finish and luminous effects, allows Koerner to render glowing moon, shadowy fields, and distant structures with a dreamlike intensity, blending realism with subtle atmospheric magic. Created during th...
About the Artist
Daniel Koerner · 1909–1977
American, New York 1909–1977 New York