Fields with Evening Sky, Hanover

Carl Schaefer

BIRTH YEAR 1903
BIRTH PLACE Hanover, Ontario
DEATH YEAR 1995
DEATH PLACE Toronto, Ontario
MEDIUM Oil on canvas
DATE 1938
DIMENSIONS 94.3cm x 68.6cm x 1.9cm
ACCESSION NUMBER FAC 1129
CREDIT LINE Firestone Collection of Canadian Art, the Ottawa Art Gallery. Donated to the City of Ottawa by the Ontario Heritage Foundation
CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION
A dark landscape featuring vast, straw-coloured fields with hay bales in the foreground, stylized trees along the middle ground and more fields in the background. There is a homestead (house) with a windmill (building) in the middle of the fields in the background. The sky overhead is filled with dark, sweeping clouds in shades of grey.

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