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    "localId": "167560",
    "label": "The Golden Hour",
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    "id": "167560",
    "contentType": "drawing",
    "title": "The Golden Hour",
    "description": "Samuel Palmer developed a personal and emotionally charged style of landscape painting that celebrated nature as the product of divine creation. This watercolor of a spectacularly colorful sunset over the hills of Surrey was painted by Palmer toward the end of his life. An autumn sky heavy with rows of cumulus clouds shimmers in a pattern of pink and amethyst, as slivers of golden light emanate from the setting sun. The idyllic landscape is an elegy not only to a passing day, but to the brevity of life itself.",
    "date": "1865",
    "citation": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.3",
    "rights": "CC0",
    "rightsUri": "CC0",
    "language": "en",
    "wikidata": [
        "Q79999562"
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    "imageCount": 1,
    "source": "import",
    "dimensionsRaw": "Sheet: 25.6 x 35.4 cm (10 1/16 x 13 15/16 in.)",
    "cul": [
        "England, 19th century"
    ],
    "accession": "2009.3"
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    "tec": "watercolor and gouache with graphite and scraping",
    "tombstone": "The Golden Hour, 1865. Samuel Palmer (British, 1805–1881). Watercolor and gouache with graphite and scraping; sheet: 25.6 x 35.4 cm (10 1/16 x 13 15/16 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund, 2009.3",
    "collection": "DR - British",
    "inscriptions": [
        {
            "inscription": "signed, in brown watercolor, at lower left: S. Palmer; inscribed, in graphite, on verso: Never let drawinsg on London Board be thinned by removing paper from the back. / This drawing would be unchanged after 3 centuries if the frame were in / a folding [\"folding\" crossed out] case with a door -- unnecessary exposure to light avoided. See Missals in B. Museum / SP"
        }
    ],
    "didYouKnow": "Around the time this watercolor was made, Samuel Palmer began to focus primarily on naturalistic landscapes that he hoped would be commercially successful in order to contend with the practical responsibilities of married life and family.",
    "citations": [
        {
            "citation": "Wilton, Andrew. <em>The Fitch Collection</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Leger Galleries, 1988.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 54"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Palmer, Alfred Herbert. <em>Samuel Palmer: A Memoir.</em> London: Fine Art Society, 1882",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: pp. i, 35, no. 83; Reproduced: facing p. 34",
            "url": "https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.fl46gn"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Palmer, Alfred Herbert. <em>The Life and Letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher</em>. London: Eric &amp; Joan Stevens, 1972.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 414"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Sellars, James. <em>Samuel Palmer</em>. London: Academy Editions, 1974.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 133"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lister, Raymond. <em>Catalogue Raisonné of the Works of Samuel Palmer</em>. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 203, no. 646"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Samuel Palmer: An Exhibition of Palmer's Works with a Leger Provenance to Celebrate a Century of Art Dealing</em>. Exh. Cat. London: Leger Galleries, 1992.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: no. 29"
        },
        {
            "citation": "<em>Treasures from the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2012.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: p. 254; Reproduced: p. 255"
        },
        {
            "citation": "\"Recent Acquisitions (2005-11) at the Cleveland Museum of Art.\" <em>Burlington Magazine</em> 1312, no. 154 (July 2012): 525-32.",
            "page_number": "Reproduced: p. 530"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Lemonedes, Heather. <em>British Drawings: The Cleveland Museum of Art. </em>Exh. Cat. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2013.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned: 114-15, 147, no. 38; Reproduced: p. 10 (detail), 115"
        },
        {
            "citation": "Cleveland Museum of Art. <em>The CMA Companion: A Guide to the Cleveland Museum of Art</em>. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2014.",
            "page_number": "Mentioned and reproduced: P. 163"
        }
    ],
    "catalogueRaisonne": "Lister 646",
    "url": "https://clevelandart.org/art/2009.3",
    "creditline": "The Severance and Greta Millikin Purchase Fund",
    "updatedAt": "2026-05-29 08:38:03.138000",
    "imageUrl": "https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/2009.3/2009.3_print.jpg",
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    "coll": "DR - British",
    "med": "watercolor and gouache with graphite and scraping",
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        "male"
    ],
    "thumbnail_url": null,
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}

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