TitleMarine with Yachts
Artist
William Trost Richards
(American, 1833 - 1905)
Datec. 1870
MediumWatercolor and gouache on green-gray wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 8 3/16 × 13 7/8 in.
Mat size: 16 × 20 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of Mrs. William T. Brewster, daughter of the artist, 1952
Object number1980.34
Label TextWith the turn of his primary interest to marine painting in the 1870s Richards began to regularly work in watercolor, which he found particularly suited to capturing effects of light and color at the shore. The medium served him for independent efforts, as well as for plein air studies for works in oil. His watercolors were regularly featured in the annual exhibitions of the American Watercolor Society, where they were greeted with critical fanfare for their masterful rendering of coastal topography, and the most subtle effects of light and atmosphere.This work was probably based on sketches made in the late 1860s along the New Jersey coast, and bears the hallmarks of the Luminist aesthetic of the period in its clarity of light, infinite sense of space, spare design, low horizon, and lateral format.
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- 19th Century Highlights from the Collection
