Twilight

Olin Levi Warner

An item at Metropolitan Museum of Art

Twilight was an unusual theme because it was not derived from Greek mythology, the source generally favored by sculptors for personifications. Yet the work offered Warner the opportunity to reveal his talent on two levels: to display both his expertise in modeling a semidraped figure and his ability to interpret an abstract concept in three-dimensional form. The juxtapositions of light and dark, smooth skin and rippling drapery, and action and repose call to mind the mysterious, fleeting moments between day and night.

The American Wing

An exhibit at Metropolitan Museum of Art

The American Wing's ever-evolving collection comprises some 20,000 works of art by African American, Euro American, Latin American, and Native American men and women. Ranging from the colonial to early-modern periods, the holdings include painting, sculpture, works on paper, and decorative arts—including furniture, textiles, ceramics, glass, silver, metalwork, jewelry, basketry, quill and bead embroidery—as well as historical interiors and architectural fragments.

Metropolitan Museum of Art