Farm in Moonlight

Farm in Moonlight by Daniel Koerner

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

FarmsMoonLandscapesNight

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 · 19091977

American, New York 1909–1977 New York

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