Silhouettes on the Bridge
Medium
figures
Classification
figures
Department
Smithsonian Collection
Museum
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Credit
Gift of Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner
Accession Number
1948-47-161
About this artwork
Research in Progress
Art Historical Context
**Silhouettes on the Bridge** (1883) by Arnold William Brunner, an American artist and architect (1857–1925), invites viewers into a shadowy, evocative scene from the Gilded Age. Created early in Brunner's career, this work captures figures poised on a bridge, rendered in a medium focused on "figures"—likely emphasizing silhouette forms that play with light, shadow, and outline. Now part of the Smithsonian American Art Museum's collection, it was generously gifted by Mrs. Arnold W. Brunner, preserving a personal connection to the artist's legacy. Silhouettes as an artistic technique were popu...