The Moon

Tarsila do Amaral · 1928

Before you is The Moon — a painting by the Brazilian artist Tarsila do Amaral, nineteen twenty-eight. Oil on canvas — pigment ground into a slow-drying oil, which is what lets a painter go back into wet paint for days.

Medium Oil on canvas · Dimensions 43 5/16 × 43 5/16" (110 × 110 cm) · Credit Gift of Joan H. Tisch (by exchange)

Hanging beside it in Gallery 509: Untitled