Museum of Fine Arts 220 State Street Springfield Massachusetts 01103 Accession Number 39.02
Date:
1932
Notes:
Coll. Cat., "Handbook of the Amer. & European Coll.," Museum of Fine Arts, Springfield, Mass., 1979.
"Selections from the American Collections of the Museum of Fine Arts and the George Walter Vincent Smith Art Museum," Springfield, MA: Springfield Library and Museums Association, 1999, pg. 61-63.
"The Work of Lyonel Feininger, Catalogue of the Exhibition," Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1951, no. 21.
Summary:
A waterscape of sailboats on the Baltic Sea painted in geometric shapes with sharp edges that define the planes in the shape of the sailboats, the sails, the waves, and the sunlight. The artist used quick strokes of paint to illustrate ripples on the water, the texture of the sailcloth and wood of the boats, and sheen of the sunlight, giving an overall mottled appearance to the canvas.
