IDENTIFICATION The artist name is Raphael Gleitsman. He was born in Dayton, OH in 1910 and died in Akron, OH in 1995. The name of the painting is WINTER EVENING, made in 1932. The medium is oil on fiberboard. It measures 39 in. x 44 in. (969.06 cm. x 111.76 cm.). This composition is on display the Akron Art Museum in Akron, OH. DESCRIPTION The picture is of a winter evening in downtown Akron, OH. The foreground consists of snow, people including adults and children, along with a person walking a dog. The foreground also consists of a mail box, automobiles, street cars or trollies, light post and a traffic light. The middle ground is made up of buildings including a drugstore, bowling alley, hat store, dry cleaners, and a Coca Cola lit billboard. The background is made of dark clouds covering 1/3 of the picture. There are also building structures in the background with a sky scraping structure reaching the skyline. There are multiple light sources in this painting. There is a natural light source from the moon which is depicted in the shades and openings in the clouds. In the left middle ground there is a reddish brown color that appears that it could be a sunset. There is also artificial light coming from the street lamp post, the lighting inside the building structures, along with the lighted signs on the outside of the buildings. Artificial light is coming from the automobiles headlights, the street car or trollies interior and headlights as well. The value of the picture is predominately neutral colors of browns, black, white, and gray. The foreground consists of whites and grays to create the snow. Small hints of red are used for a hat, and a shade of red for a coat. The use of green a secondary color along with primary colors of red and yellow are used for the traffic light. There are different shades of brown that is used in the picture to help to create a since of lighting in the middle ground. Broken short and long white lines are used to create the depth and snow on the ledges of the building. Analogous colors of yellow and green are used on the street car or trollies as well. Hints of red and yellow are on the signs for lighting and lettering. The primary color of a shade of yellow is used to create dim lighting in the windows of the building structures to complete the middle ground. DESCRIPTION The background consists of black, white, gray, including a tint and a shade of blue to create the sky. The buildings in the background use tints of gray to show the height of the building and shades of gray and black to create perspective of distance. Small yellow and white brushstrokes are used to create