Wallside exhibition
A Day of Light
From dawn to deep night, eight paintings made between about 1830 and 1906 follow how light changes through a day: sunrise over a harbour, a cathedral in morning light, the Seine on a rainy afternoon, an avenue in the setting sun, and a quay still at work under the moon. Hung in order of the hours, to be walked through slowly.
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Sunrise (Marine)
Claude Monet · 1872 or 1873
The sun has just risen; orange light falls on blue-grey water.
The Portal of Rouen Cathedral in Morning Light
Claude Monet · 1894
Morning light dissolves the stone façade into pale blue and rose.
Boulevard des Italiens, Morning, Sunlight
Camille Pissarro · 1897
Looking down on the boulevard, morning sun on crowds and carriages.
The Louvre, Afternoon, Rainy Weather
Camille Pissarro · 1900
A rainy afternoon: the quay glistens under a low, soft sky.
Evening Glow
John Atkinson Grimshaw · ca. 1884
The setting sun turns the whole avenue gold.
A Walk at Dusk
Caspar David Friedrich · about 1830–1835
Light is fading. A figure stops beside a great stone as a thin crescent moon appears.
May Night
Willard Leroy Metcalf · 1906
Moonlight on a white portico, and a figure walking towards the trees.
Keelmen Heaving in Coals by Moonlight
Joseph Mallord William Turner · 1835
The moon rides high and the fires on the quay still burn; the night's work goes on.
Works in the exhibition
Frames are digital presentations rendered by Wallside. Images courtesy of each museum under the licence shown.