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.

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