concept:era modern
Summer Evening on the South Beach at Skagen
Oil on canvas by P.S. Kroyer (1893). Two women in white dresses walk along the shoreline at the 'blue hour' of a Danish summer evening — sea, sky, and sand dissolved in ethereal blue-white light. The defining image of the Skagen colony. Skagens Museum.
Scholarly Significance
Anchor the Skagen Painters cluster with Kroyer's Summer Evening on the South Beach.
Notes
- ·The two women are Marie Kroyer (the artist's wife) and Anna Ancher (fellow Skagen painter).
- ·The 'blue hour' (bla time) — the distinctive cool blue-white twilight of far northern Scandinavian summers.
- ·Plein-air technique: painted outdoors at the beach in the long summer evenings of northern Jutland.
- ·Considered Denmark's most beloved painting in popular surveys.