American Art Second Beach, Newport Made in New York, New York, United States, North and Central AmericaAnd made in Newport, Rhode Island, United States, North and Central America 1865 Worthington Whittredge, American, 1820 - 1910 Oil on canvas * Gallery 116, American Art, first floor 2007-65-3 Gift of the McNeil Americana Collection, 2007 |
LabelBorn in Ohio, Worthington Whittredge worked in Cincinnati as a house and sign painter, a portraitist, and later a landscape painter. After ten years spent traveling and working in Europe, he returned to New York in 1859 with a crisp, naturalistic style shaped by the precision of contemporary German painting. His style gracefully adapted to American subjects and Americans’ taste for quiet, light-filled landscapes. This tranquil view of a sunrise on a beach at Newport shares the contemplative spirit and spaciousness of contemporary paintings by his colleagues in the second generation of the New York School.* Works in the collection are moved off view for many different reasons. Although gallery locations on the website are updated regularly, there is no guarantee that this object will be on display on the day of your visit. |
