A quiet place on the internet

Skumring is a personal, non-commercial archive. It collects northern landscape paintings that are now in the public domain and arranges them into a few small rooms.

Skumring is the Norwegian and Danish word for dusk — the long in-between hour when the light is neither day nor night. Most of the paintings here seem to be about that hour, even when they show the middle of the day.

I am not an art historian. I am someone who spends a lot of time looking out of windows at grey water and snow, and who found that these old paintings say something about that light better than most photographs do.

Everything here is free to look at. There is nothing to buy, no account to create, no cookies and no analytics. The site is deliberately small and loads only its own files.

Every image is credited to its artist, and every source and licence is listed on the sources page. If you notice a mistake in a title or a date, it is my mistake, and I will be glad to correct it.

The archive grows slowly, roughly with the seasons.