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Cornoyer, l.l. - - oil on canvas22 x 26 1/4 in. (56 x 66.3 cm.)PROVENANCEEdward L. Barlow, North CarolinaNew York, Sotheby Parke-Bernet (Sale: January 23, 1979, lot 124)EXHIBITEDBuffalo, Buffalo Fine Arts Academy, Albright Art Gallery, A Collection of Oil Paintings by Paul Cornoyer, Nov. 1908, pp. 98-99, no.16Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Directions in American Painting 1875-1925, June-Aug. 1982, pp. 24-25, illus. (this exhibition travelled to various locations, 1982-1987)Youngstown, Youngstown State University, The John J. McDonough Museum of Art, Inaugural Exhibition, Oct. 1991-May 1992, p. 9; 26, illus.LITERATURE"Two Special Exhibitions," Academy Notes 4, Buffalo, Dec. 1908, pp. 97-100The Academy Notes of 1908, for the Albright Art Gallery exhibition, describes a painting that is almost certainly Late Afternoon, Washington Square as follows: "The last rays of the setting sun gild the top of the Washington Arch and the upper portion of the University building on the east side of the Square. They also give glowing color to the branches of the budding trees in the middle-ground. The lower portion of the canvas is in a half-light, and here, on the broad walks along the foreground, figures, moving about, give touches of color - - repeating to some extent the brightness of the upper portion of the canvas...".