Painting of a man in a blue shirt holding a brush beside a piano, with a faint reflected figure behind him and brushes in a jar at left.

Day Dreams, ca. 1934

A man in a blue shirt sits at a piano, holding a brush and gazing off to the side, while a second figure appears faintly reflected behind him. Angular, faceted planes of ochre and slate blue, with brushes and a jar in the foreground, suggest a studio interior in a stylized modernist manner.

Artist: Unidentified
Date: ca. 1934
Medium: oil on fiberboard
Source: Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum)
Size: 2880 × 2174 px

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Public domain · Smithsonian (Smithsonian American Art Museum) releases this image under CC0 (latest date 1939).
Rights checked 2026-11-05 · tier A · as stated by the source: CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)

Credit (appreciated, not required for public-domain works): Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum

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