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Ruin at Daphne
Ruin at Daphne is an oil painting on canvas by the American artist Edwin Dickinson (1891–1978). His major painting of the 1940s, the work occupied Dickinson between 1943 and 1953. The painting, which is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, is an architectural fantasy in red and gray tones.
History.
"Ruin at Daphne" was inspired by the Roman ruins that had impressed Dickinson while visiting European during 1937–38. It began as "a 60/48 of antique
Passedoit was that he wanted time to work on a new painting, "Ruin at Daphne", on which he continued to paint, with periodic interludes and lapses in enthusiasm, until 1953, for a total of 447 sittings (about 1341 hours). A donor purchased "Ruin at Daphne" and gave it to the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 1955. The Whitney Museum of American Art purchased "The Fossil Hunters" in 1958, and in 1988 the M. H. de Young Museum purchased "The Cello Player",