Genre
Golden Hour
The low sun of the golden hour washes a scene in warm, raking light, lengthening every shadow and gilding every surface. It is the light painters chase at dawn and dusk — brief, generous, and flattering — when even an ordinary field or street is briefly made to glow from the side.
Key artists
Works
Mount Vernon
View of a Harbor
American Lake Scene
Sunset. Fontainebleau
The Temple of Concordia by Girgenti
Surroundings of the Habsburg Ruin
Udsigt fra Vesterskov ved Mariager; i baggrunden fjorden
Udsigt over Sortedamssøen mod Nørrebro
View of the Ariccia and the Roman Campagna
Koeien in de weide
A Seaport at Sunrise
Ansicht der Weisenau bei Mainz
Cabaña
A Port
La oración. Costumbres de la provincia de Salamanca
Marina Piccola de Capri
Campagna-Landschaft
Sea Bay
Mondaufgang
Ofen with Blocksberg
Dawn
The Church Spire
Sunset: Lake Champlain
Sunset in the Catskills
Willows by a Stream
Mill on a River
Bird Mountain, Castleton, Vermont
Sunset on the Nile
Off St Andrews
The Nile—Evening
View on the Arno
A River Scene with a Castle and Figures
Tuna Fishing at Sunrise off the Coast near Marseilles
Le Château d'Eze, pres de Nice
View of Montigny-sur-Loing
Landskab i Tyrol
The Heath at Sunset
View of Kristiania (Oslo)
Abendlandschaft mit Brücke
Orientalischer Seehafen bei Sonnenaufgang
Paisaje fluvial con figuras
Sonnenuntergang über den Campi Flegrei gegen die Inseln Procida und Ischia
The Villa d'Este in Tivoli
Italian Harbour
El toc d'oració
Die Engelsburg in Rom
Pastoral scene
Venice, Evening
Sunset on a Lake
Haystacks on the Newburyport Marshes
Sunset on a Bay, with Castle Ruins
The Last Gleam of Sunset
Theodosia Bay, sunrise
Ballinrobe House
A View of Falmouth
A View of the Salmon Leap, Leixlip
Mediterranean Harbor Scene
Harvest
A view of the Douglas Bridge near Inverary, Argyllshire
A Summer's Evening
Shepherdess and Shepherd with Sheep and Goats
Govan Ferry
The Grand Canal in Venice
Grand Canal in Venice.
Coucher de soleil. Villerville
A billabong of the Goulburn, Victoria
View of Mount Washington
Evening Glow
Shoshone Indians at a Mountain Lake (Lake Fremont)
Coast Scene with Europa and the Bull
Marine avec l'embarquement de Carlo et Ubaldo
View of Palermo with Mount Pellegrino
Paysage avec le repos pendant la fuite en Egypte
View of Palermo with Monte Pellegrino.
Canale Grande in Venice
Lake Windermere with Belle Island
Low Tide
The Escape of Mary, Queen of Scots from Loch Leven Castle, 2 May 1568
A Steamer on Lake Geneva: Evening Effect
View on the Nile
Le port
View from Mount Merino near Hudson
Indian Encampment
Roma cu Vaticanul și bazilica Sfântul Petru
Vedere din Roma Veche (Roma cu columnele templului lui Jupiter)
Evening
Bay of Naples
Enée chassant le cerf sur la côte de Libye
Pe Gianicolo
Ruotsalaista sadonkorjuuväkeä veneessä
Stormsin eli Degervikin kruununvirkatalo Kirkkonummella
Lake Scene
Peisaj pe Rin
Stansvik
The Golden Hour
東海道五十三次之内 荒井 渡舟の図|Arai, Tosen
After Sunset in the Outskirts of a Village
A Mountain Scenery with a River
A Coast. Sicily
En grønlandsk boplads ved en fjord. Sommer
En gammel fisker der om aftenen sætter sine garn ud
The Temple of Concordia by Girgenti
Sjællandsk landskab, aften
Southern Mountain Scenery
En bro over et vandløb ved Skodsborgvej
A Croft at Lodskov near Vognserup Manor, Zealand
Evening at Skagen
Parti ved Iselingen. I baggrunden Vordingborg Kirke og Gåsetårnet. Septemberaften
A View from the Château of Meudon
Rural Scene
En fåreflok. Motivet fra Faxingeskoven ved Nysø
View from the Hills above Castellamare at Naples
Untitled
Frequently asked questions
What is Golden Hour?
Golden Hour is a quality of light in painting. The low sun of the golden hour washes a scene in warm, raking light, lengthening every shadow and gilding every surface.
How many Golden Hour works does Artifact World Gallery have?
Artifact World Gallery holds 113 public-domain Golden Hour works, all free to view and download.
Who are the key Golden Hour artists?
Key Golden Hour artists in the collection include Thomas Cole, Albert Bierstadt and Alfred Thompson Bricher.