TitleA Passing Shower
Artist
Frank Knox Morton Rehn
(1848 - 1914)
Date1886
MediumCharcoal on cream laid paper
DimensionsSheet size: 17 3/8 × 11 3/4 in.
Image size: 14 5/16 × 11 3/4 in.
SignedSigned in charcoal at BRE: "FKM Rehn"
MarkingsWatermark: Lalanne
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Gift of the Estate of Isabel S. Kurtz, 1991
Object number2003.14.60
Label TextA contemporary of fellow marine painter and romantic Albert Pinkham Ryder, who worked in a similar style, Frank Rehn shared Ryder's belief in the expressive potential of the open sea. Like the boat in Thomas Cole's Voyage of Life (in the entrance of the exhibition), Rehn's lone vessel struggles through the high seas, evoking the adversity of life.
