View of Gloucester Harbor (Primary Title)
Fitz Henry Lane, American, 1804 - 1865 (Artist)
A native of Gloucester, Massachusetts, Lane maintained a studio very near this site in the city’s inner harbor. His view includes local landmarks along the low horizon—Ten Pound Island, at left, and the ruins of Fort Defiance, at right .A square-rigged merchant ship appears in the distance, while on the shore are a schooner and fishermen selling their catch to waiting townsmen.
The warm, atmospheric glow that permeates the late-afternoon scene signals the artist’s developing interest in depicting the quality of light at specific moments of the day. At midcentury,as Lane sought to capture the changing effects of weather and light, his paintings became increasingly spacious, still, and luminous.
American Luminism, Coe Kerr Gallery, New York, October 25 - November 25, 1978
American Marine Painting, Artmobile, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., Spring - Fall 1977
American Marine Painting, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., September 27 - October 31, 1976; The Mariner's Museum, Newport News, Va., November 8 - December 12, 1976
19th Century Topographic Painters, Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami at Coral Gables, FL, November 21, 1974 - January 5, 1975
Fitz Hugh Lane, Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, ME, July 12 - September 15, 1974
Fitz Hugh Lane, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA, March 20 - April 17, 1966; Colby College, Waterville, ME, April 28 - June 6, 1966
The Seashore in Paintings of the 19th and 20th Centuries, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, October 21 - December 5, 1965
Landscape Painting 1650 - 1960, Artmobile, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Va., March - May 1963
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