Seascape (Cape Ann, Halibut Point)
Object Detail
Artist
Date
1891
Period
19th century
Media
Oil on canvas
Measurements
25 x 30 inches (unframed)
33 3/4 x 38 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches (framed)
33 3/4 x 38 3/4 x 2 7/8 inches (framed)
Classification
Subject Category
Seascape
Credit Line
Museum purchase, 1944.409
Accession No
44.409
Context
For over two centuries, the New England coastline has inspired scores of artists, writers, scholars and seekers influenced by the romantic, spiritual, and transcendentalist movements that presaged the rise of tourism. Views such as this, although rare by a portraiture artist such as DeCamp, portrayed the Atlantic as a breezy and bucolic aesthetic to be admired and basked in rather than an entity to be feared.
Featured in “Maine and American Art: Farnsworth Art Museum” with thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation and Wyeth Foundation for American Art.
Featured in “Maine and American Art: Farnsworth Art Museum” with thanks to the Henry Luce Foundation and Wyeth Foundation for American Art.