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New Year's Evening

New Year's Evening

Artist: Charles F. Witman (American, 1836 - 1885)

Date: 1876
Medium: oil on canvas
Dimensions:
Canvas: 20 1/8 x 28 in. (51.1 x 71.1 cm)
Credit Line:Gift, Reverend Dr. J. Richard Szeremany and Muriel McEvoy Szeremany
Object number: 2022.15.1

Witman, who worked and taught in Berks County, specialized in winter scenes. His best-known students included Francis D. Devlan and Jacob Miesse.

By 1869, he lived in Philadelphia and exhibited works at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.


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