Landscape c. 19th century

Editor: Here we have William Morris' "Landscape" – an undated drawing at the Harvard Art Museums. It feels so somber, almost like a memory fading away. What captures your eye in this piece? Curator: Oh, that fading quality you mention—that's precisely the charm, isn’t it? Morris, the textile magician, turns his hand to landscape and gifts us this whisper of a place. It feels like he's inviting us to dream alongside him, perhaps of an idealized countryside escaping the industrial age. What do you think? Editor: That’s beautiful. I hadn’t thought of it as an escape. I was just feeling the grayness, the almost forgotten mood. Thank you. Curator: Exactly, and in that grayness, there's a whole world of feeling, right? We find glimmers of hope, don't we? It makes you wonder what Morris was longing for.