After an April Shower

Young was born in Gettysburg and in the first decade of the twentieth century was considered to be one of Philadelphia’s greatest landscape painters. In 1907, he visited Florence Griswold’s boarding house at Old Lyme and also visited the art colony at Cos Cob in Connecticut. A few years later, he visited Falls Village, Connecticut, where he came into contact with impressionists Willard Metcalf and Robert Reid. After An April Shower may be a result from this trip. The serene composition—a gentle sloping valley with trees touched by pale greens, golds, and russets—is brought to life by the geometric patterns created by the stone walls.