Drying Sails, Gloucester

Gallery 215, American Art, second floor

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Drying Sails, Gloucester

20th century

Fern Isabel Coppedge (American, 1883–1951)

Fern Isabel Coppedge studied with Impressionist landscape painter Daniel Garber (American, 1880-1958) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and attended the Philadelphia School of Design for Women (now Moore College of Art & Design) before moving to New Hope, Pennsylvania, in 1929. She was one of the few women artists associated with the Pennsylvania Impressionist group and became well known for her paintings of Bucks County landscapes, winter scenes, and marine subjects. This canvas depicts the harbor in Gloucester, Massachusetts, where she spent many summers. Although undated, the work’s imaginative color scheme suggests that Coppedge painted it fairly late in her career.

Gallery 215, American Art, second floor

Object Details

Title:

Drying Sails, Gloucester

Date:

20th century

Artist:

Fern Isabel Coppedge (American, 1883–1951)

Medium:

Oil on canvas

Dimensions:

20 × 24 inches (50.8 × 61 cm)

Classification:

Paintings

Credit Line:

Gift of Marguerite and Gerry Lenfest, 2008

Accession Number:

2008-183-4

Geography:

Made in United States, North and Central America

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Gallery 215, American Art, second floor

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