Charles Melville Dewey The Harvest Moon, ca. 1908
The Close of Day
Charles Melville Dewey (1849–1937)
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Size
- 23¼ × 39¼ in (59.3 × 99.4 cm)
- Museum
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, accession 1909.7.20. See the museum’s record
- Credit
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of William T. Evans
Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0).
Palette
- #B5B98D, 26 % of the picture, closest to Sage Green walls
- #D6DAB0, 23 % of the picture, closest to Sand walls
- #2E2B1A, 22 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #453F21, 21 % of the picture, closest to Chocolate walls
- #816F40, 8 % of the picture, closest to Olive walls
Closest wall colors:
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Hang it
Pick the furniture and a print size to see it to scale on your wall.
- 24 × 40 in, the whole painting on 30 × 40 in paper
- Center
- 55¼ in (140 cm) from the floor
- Above the sofa
- 8 in (20 cm) from the sofa to the frame
- Ideal width
- 56 to 63 in over an 84 in sofa
- Why this height
- Centered at eye level, this frame would not sit 6 to 10 in above the sofa, so the 8 in gap sets the height.
Try it on your wall color
Default greige
Print it
No standard paper matches this painting’s proportions closely, so print it whole with a white border, or trim the edges to fill the paper.
| Paper | Filling the paper | Printed whole | Frame | Frame with a 2 in mat | Frame with a 3 in mat | Sharpness |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 5 × 7 in | trims 16.5 % | 4¼ × 7 in | 5 × 7 in ready-made | 9 × 11 in custom | 11 × 13 in custom | 415 dpi, crisp up close |
| 12 × 16 in | trims 20.4 % | 9½ × 16 in | 12 × 16 in ready-made | 16 × 20 in ready-made | 18 × 22 in custom | 183 dpi, crisp from a step back |
| 18 × 24 in | trims 20.4 % | 14¼ × 24 in | 18 × 24 in ready-made | 22 × 28 in ready-made | 24 × 30 in ready-made | 122 dpi, soft up close |
| 20 × 30 in | trims 10.5 % | 18 × 30 in | 20 × 30 in ready-made | 24 × 34 in custom | 26 × 36 in custom | 97 dpi, soft up close |
| 24 × 36 in | trims 10.5 % | 21½ × 36 in | 24 × 36 in ready-made | 28 × 40 in custom | 30 × 42 in custom | 81 dpi, soft up close |
| 30 × 40 in | trims 20.4 % | 24 × 40 in | 30 × 40 in ready-made | 34 × 44 in custom | 36 × 46 in custom | 73 dpi, soft up close |
Sharpness is worked out from the largest file the museum offers. Above 300 dpi a print holds up at arm’s length; 150 dpi is plenty for a picture seen from across a sofa.
Download
Free for any use, including commercial: this image is public domain (CC0).
- Thumbnail (WebP) 560 × 326 px from Room Paintings
- Web image 843 × 491 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Print file 2,000 × 1,163 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
- Original file 3,000 × 1,745 px from Smithsonian American Art Museum
- The museum’s record of this painting Smithsonian American Art Museum
Public domain image courtesy of the Smithsonian American Art Museum (Smithsonian Open Access, CC0). You may print, share, change and sell it without asking. Read what that means on our image license page, and how to get a good result in how to print a public-domain painting.
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