TitleSeascape with Spray
Artist
William Trost Richards
(American, 1833 - 1905)
Datec. 1900
MediumGraphite on buff wove paper
DimensionsSheet size: 4 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.
Image size: 2 15/16 × 5 7/8 in.
Mat size (Matted with 1982.2514): 20 × 16 in.
Credit LineNational Academy of Design, New York, NY, Bequest of Mrs. William T. Brewster, daughter of the artist, 1952
Object number1982.2513
Label TextHarrison Morrison, who authored the first monograph on Richards, recalled how in the 1870s the artist “stood for hours in . . . Atlantic City or Cape May, with folded arms, studying the motion of the sea, -until people thought him insane. After days of gazing, he made pencil notes of the action of the water. He even stood for hours in a bathing suit among the waves, trying to analyze the motion.”
