TRUDY LABELL FINE ART: October 2014

Ben Franklin not only played with kites, he played with our time by introducing the idea of Daylight Savings Time in 1784. So let's thank him for that extra hour of daylight in the spring and that extra hour of sleep in the fall.

Night time has always inspired creativity.

Rembrandt created his celebrated painting, Nightwatch with it's large size and spectacular use of chiaroscuro (light and shadow) in 1642.

Rembrandt van Rijn, Nightwatch, Oil on Canvas, 11' x 14' (an unusually large size for this period), Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam

Edward Hopper painted his iconic take on the night, Night Hawks in 1942. The melancholy couple sitting at the counter in this NYC diner are Hopper and his wife.

Edward Hopper, Night Hawks, Oil on Canvas, 33" x 60", Art Institute of Chicago

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Over 200 years after Ben Franklin's brilliant idea gave us one more precious hour of evening, our gallery artists have created their own versions of night scenes.