William Langson Lathrop
American painter and printmaker, 1859-1938
Sunshine After Rain
About 1925
Oil on canvas
30 x 25 inches (76.2 x 63.5 centimeters)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. Alden C. Feyler, 1982.
1982.011.000

William Langson Lathrop was a leader of the New Hope School of landscape painters. He was instrumental in establishing the Pennsylvania town as an artists' colony in the first decades of the twentieth century, and his home and studio at Philips Mill became a center for entertaining and nurturing his students and the area's growing number of artists. Lathrop's early work included etchings and Tonalist landscape paintings with the muted colors typical of that style. He used a brighter palette for Sunshine After Rain, which exemplifies his later, more impressionistic work.