#cape ann

[maureen2musings]

at the edge of the sea

nev.in.color

[galleryofart]

Gloucester Harbour

Artist: Willard Metcalf (American, 1858-1925)

Date: 1895

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts, United States

[grungeouttakesabstracts]

Unnumbered

Magnolia, Massachusetts -- 4/12/15

[timmurleyart]

The Gloucester lobsterman 🦞🦞🦞

[20thcenturyartgallery]

Beach Scene, Gloucester

Artist: Jane Peterson (American, 1876–1965)

Date: c. 1916

Oil on canvas

Collection: Hirchl & Adler Galleries, New York City, NY, United States

Description

Gloucester is a fishing town on Cape Ann, some forty miles north of Boston. Settled in the earliest days of the Massachusetts Bay colony, the town boasts its own native son artist, Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865). Beach Scene, Gloucester belongs to a genre beloved by impressionist painters—depictions of people enjoying leisure activity away from the stresses of everyday life. Between 1914 and 1924, Peterson found inspiration in New England locales, destinations that became compellingly attractive in the years of World War I, when Peterson’s accustomed fishing villages of Holland, Belgium, England, and Brittany were inaccessible.

In Beach Scene, Gloucester (a descriptive title), Peterson paints groups of convivial beachgoers enjoying a sunny day on a sandy strand. The work is carefully composed with a horizontal band of sand in the foreground, a median band of figures and at top, sky, punctuated by three large beach umbrellas offering token protection from the sun. The work can be approximately dated by gauging the outfits of the crowd. They are appropriate to the early years of Peterson’s visits to Gloucester, when beachgoers still preserved the covered-up modesty of the late 19th century, just before the abbreviated outfits of only a few years later in the early 1920s.

[canridauis]

last summer

[impressionim-paintings]

Fishing Boats at Gloucester

Artist: John Henry Twachtman (American, 1853-1902)

Date: 1901

Medium: Oil on canvas

Collection: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC, United States

[oledavyjones]

Cape Ann Fisherman, 1905. Massachusetts, 1900s.