Art, literature & history
May Night
1906
- Dating
- Exact year
- Held at
- National Gallery of Art
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Dimensions
- overall: 99.54 × 91.76 cm (39 3/16 × 36 1/8 in.) framed: 53 3/8 x 50 1/2 x 2 3/16 in. (135.57 x 128.27 x 5.56 cm)
- Collection no.
- 2014.136.6
- Attribution
- By the artist
- Image rights
- NGA Open Access — public domainLicense details
Willard Leroy Metcalf. May Night. National Gallery of Art. NGA Open Access — public domain. Compressed full-frame reproduction.
Collection: National Gallery of Art
About this artwork
May Night — Willard Leroy Metcalf. 1906.
Medium: oil on canvas.
Dimensions (museum labels retained): overall: 99.54 × 91.76 cm (39 3/16 × 36 1/8 in.) framed: 53 3/8 x 50 1/2 x 2 3/16 in. (135.57 x 128.27 x 5.56 cm).
Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington. Accession 2014.136.6. Corcoran Collection (Museum Purchase, Gallery Fund, 1907).
Museum holding does not establish current display.
Source: National Gallery of Art, CC0 collection metadata, retrieved 9 September 2026.
Location checked Sep 9, 2026. This does not indicate whether the work is on display.