Bright Light at Russell's Corners (Q20451046)

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artist: George Ault (Q2282231)
collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305)
location: Smithsonian American Art Museum (Q1192305)
country of origin: United States of America (Q30)
material used: oil paint (Q296955) canvas (Q12321255)
depicts: barn (Q1303167)
instance of: painting (Q3305213)
Smithsonian American Art Museum ID: 679

catalog URL: https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/bright-light-russells-corners-679

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description: The radiant light at Russell’s Corners forms the center of the mysterious world Ault painted there. His wife Louise chose a quotation from the German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche to describe her husband: “Unless there be chaos within, no dancing star is born.”

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