Sweet Tremulous Leaves
This painting depicts two nude women standing, facing the left. The women have pale skin, and the woman on the left has red-blond hair while the woman on the right has dark brown hair. They are both reaching upward, and behind them is a tall tree with green leaves. Behind the tree is a green landscape with distant blue mountains under a cloudy blue sky.
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Details
- Artist
- Arthur B. Davies
- Date
- 1922/1923
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 77.2 x 46.4 cm (30 3/8 x 18 1/4 in.) framed: 97.8 x 67.6 x 3.2 cm (38 1/2 x 26 5/8 x 1 1/4 in.)
- Department
- CAB
- Holding institution
- National Gallery of Art
- Palette
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- Image provider
- national-gallery-of-art
- License
- CC0-1.0
- Credit
- Chester Dale Collection
Art Genome Taxonomy
10 tags
Subject Matter
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Nude Both · 99%
The catalog describes two nude women, and the image clearly shows two unclothed female figures.
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Human Figure Both · 99%
Two human bodies and faces are the central visible subjects.
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Figures in Nature Both · 98%
The figures are placed directly within a leafy setting beside a tree trunk; the catalog also describes the surrounding landscape and vegetation.
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Landscapes Both · 95%
The image includes a tree, foliage, blue-gray distance, and landscape-like background passages, consistent with the catalog’s description of a green landscape and distant blue mountains.
Visual Qualities
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Curvilinear Forms Visual · 90%
Rounded, flowing contours characterize the figures’ bodies and arms as well as the tree branches and foliage.
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Dark Colors Visual · 91%
Dark greens, blue-greens, browns, and subdued flesh tones dominate the composition.
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Dense Composition Visual · 88%
The overlapping figures, tree trunk, foliage, and background passages fill most of the tall canvas, creating a concentrated arrangement.
Medium and Techniques
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Painting Both · 99%
The museum classifies the work as a painting, and the image visibly presents a painted canvas surface.
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Oil Painting Metadata · 99%
The museum metadata identifies the medium as oil on canvas.
Time Periods
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1918 - 1939 (Interwar) Art Metadata · 99%
The work is dated 1922/1923, within the catalog’s 1918–1939 interwar period category.
Source & rights
Arthur B. Davies. Sweet Tremulous Leaves. Courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington.
High-resolution sources
- IIIF image service ↗ 8,605 × 14,289 · National Gallery Of Art · Available