Dated Web objects 1920-1959

Daniel Garber

Date: c. 1940

Credit Line: Terra Foundation for American Art, Daniel J. Terra Collection

Object number: 1992.36

Text Entries: Described as a synthesis of the real and surreal and of precise draftsmanship and decorative technique, the work of Daniel Garber held great appeal to his contemporaries and garnered critical acclaim and honors over his long artistic career. Like that of his fellow Pennsylvanian Impressionists, Garber's work often relied on local landscapes as subject and even earned him the title, by one critic, of "Exponent of Nationalism in American Art." Executed by Garber at the age of sixty, Fisherman's Hut is suffused with poetic elements that transcend everyday experience. Awash with brilliant color, the canvas seems to glow in diffuse light. Garber's masterful play with shading and scale-the multiple shadows cast by the objects which seem to elude a common source of light and the immense height of the tree in proportion to the house and the figure in the foreground-provides drama to an otherwise prosaic scene.