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Purple Heather
Christopher Shearer1879
Reading Public Museum
Reading, United States
A visit to Paris and the environs in the late 1870s allowed Shearer to engage with contemporary European artists who were embracing a new approach to landscape painting known as Impressionism. Shearer’s style exhibits a marked shift toward much looser, brushy compositions at this time.
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Details
- Title: Purple Heather
- Creator: Christopher High Shearer
- Date Created: 1879
- Physical Dimensions: 11"h x 22.75"w
- Type: painting
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Culture: American
- Credit Line: Bequest, Katharine R. Loose Estate
- Creator Death Date: 1926
- Creator Birth Date: 1846
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