Late for the Sky is the third studio album by American singer–songwriter Jackson Browne, released by Asylum Records on September 13, 1974. It peaked at number 14 on Billboard's Pop Albums chart.
Jackson Browne Lateforthe Sky
The Empire of Light is the title of a succession of paintings by René Magritte. They depict the paradoxical image of a nocturnal landscape beneath a sunlit sky. He explored the theme in 27 paintings f
Late for the Sky
…album, five of them longer than five minutes. Browne has publicly acknowledged that the cover art for Late for the Sky was inspired by the 1954 painting L'Empire des Lumieres ("Empire of Light"), by Belgian surrealist René Magritte. The album itself contains the credit, "cover concept Jackson Browne if it's all reet with Magritte". The original…
The Empire of Light (1954), Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels
The Empire of Light II (1950), oil on canvas, 79 x 99 cm. Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Empire of Light (1954), oil on canvas, 195.4 x 131.2 cm., Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice
John Atkinson Grimshaw, Boar Lane, Leeds, 1880s