After publication in February of his work on the other Monet painting, “The Cliff, Etretat, Sunset,” French curators urged Olson to reexamine the Le Havre sunrise - they were planning an exhibition that opens Sept. Olson had puzzled over the sunrise over Le Havre for 15 or more years, putting it aside for other projects.

He also calculated the place where Ansel Adams snapped his shutter to capture an Autumn moon from Glacier Point in Yosemite National Park - and organized a reenactment of the shot, under similar celestial conditions, in 2005. He and his research team have linked the luridly orange sky of Edvard Munch’s “The Scream” with drifting emissions from the Krakatoa volcanic eruption, and dated a Monet depiction of a sunset near the cliffs on the Normandy coast as well as three Van Gogh works. This was far from Olson’s first bout of applying science to art. 25, 1873, also matched conditions and other data, but curators opted for the November date, since Monet dated his painting “72.” The guy was out there every day at 8 in the morning.”Ī weather report on Jan.

“So, on exactly the time of day I want to know about, we have a guy looking at the water and looking at the sky. “All of the times I was considering were between 7:30 and 8:30 a.m.,” Olson said. 15, 1872, at 7:35 a.m., the weather observer noted light winds from the southeast with mist, fog and calm seas.

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