Half-Tide, Annisquam River
Cecilia Beaux
American, 1855–1942
Details
Title
Half-Tide, Annisquam River
Artist/Maker
Cecilia Beaux (American, 1855–1942)
Date
ca. 1905
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
16 x 20 inches
Credit
Gift of the Verrill Family in memory of Jean Verrill
Accession #
2005.294
Location
Currently not on view
Cecilia Beaux was known primarily as a figure and portrait painter, and her brilliant psychologically revealing depictions of upper-class subjects earned her international recognition as the leading female American painter of the 1900s. This rare landscape—among fewer than a dozen she produced in her nearly forty-five-year career—depicts a lovely view from Beaux’s summer home in Gloucester, Massachusetts. Beaux has perfectly captured the verdant countryside and the calm of a summer day in soft blues, greens, and violets.