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A river front scene in dark tonalities with figures walking by a docked sailboat with an indust…
Savannah Nocturne
A river front scene in dark tonalities with figures walking by a docked sailboat with an indust…
A river front scene in dark tonalities with figures walking by a docked sailboat with an industrious skyline on the horizon across the river.
Savannah Nocturne, Eliot Candee Clark, c. 1924-1925, oil on board, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, © Estate of Eliot Candee Clark.

Savannah Nocturne

Artist (American, 1883 - 1980)
Datec. 1924 - 1925
Mediumoil on board
DimensionsCanvas: 24 3/4 × 30 inches (62.9 × 76.2 cm)
Framed: 29 × 34 1/8 inches (73.7 × 86.7 cm)
Credit LineMuseum purchase, partial funding provided by the Ann H. Cordell Bequest.
Object number1998.7
On View
On view
CopyrightThe images and text contained on this page are owned by Telfair Museums or used by the Museum with permission from the owners. Unauthorized reproduction, transmission or display of these materials is prohibited with the exception of items deemed “fair use” as defined by U.S. and international copyright laws.Label TextEliot Clark was born in New York City and grew up painting under the tutelage of his father, Walter Clark, a landscape painter. In 1924 and 1925, Clark spent the winters in Savannah as a visiting instructor for the Savannah Art Club. He set up his studio in an old cotton warehouse along Bay Street for an unfettered view of the Savannah River. Savannah Nocturne captures one of the moonlight-drenched cobblestone ramps that lead down to the riverfront. Clark wrote of the Savannah scenery: “What impressed me most was the soft, enveloping atmospheric light quite different from the contours and strong shadows of New England.” The merging of foreground and background in Savannah Nocturne represents a marriage between two distinct styles of painting; uniting the softer moodiness common to paintings by James McNeil Whistler with the impressionist application of broken brushwork and dappled light.
Subject MatterSavannah River, River Street, Savannah, Georgia, United States of America
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