Lanfear and Miss Gerald sat a moment in silence

Lanfear and Miss Gerald sat a moment in silence
Lanfear and Miss Gerald sat a moment in silence

Lanfear and Miss Gerald sat a moment in silence

Date1906
Artist (Scottish painter, active 1892–1914)
Illustration Citation"A Sleep and a Forgetting," by William Dean Howells, in Harper's Weekly, December 15, 1906
MediumInk, watercolor, and gouache on illustration board
Dimensions26 × 19 5/8 in. (66 × 49.8 cm)
frame: 35 1/8 × 29 5/8 in. (89.2 × 75.2 cm)
Credit LineGayle and Alene Hoskins Endowment Fund, 1982
Object number1982-2
On View
Not on view
ClassificationsDRAWING
Label TextIn this scene, a psychologist observes a young woman who inexplicably forgets each of their meetings once they part. Adamson's deft use of filtered light and shadows evokes the mysterious mood of William Dean Howells's story.

Scottish by birth, Sydney Adamson was one of many artist-illustrators who worked in both London and New York from the 1890's through World War I. In 1906, when he illustrated this story, he was living in New York City, where he exhibited a painting at the National Academy of Design. Two years later, he exhibited at the Royal Academy in London.


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