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The Volunteer Taking the Lead Around the Lightship Sandy Hook, (painting)

Catalog Data

Painter:
Buttersworth, James E. 1817-1894  Search this
Medium:
Oil on millboard
Type:
Paintings
Date:
Ca. 1887
Notes:
Leeds, Valerie Ann, "An American Palette: Works from the Collection of John and Dolores Beck," St. Petersburg, FL: Museum of Fine Arts, 2000, pg. 42.
Summary:
Waterscape depicting a yacht race across a choppy ocean, with one boat in the lead and the others clustered in the background. Overhead the gray clouds part and a beam of sunlight shines down on the lead boat.
Topic:
Waterscape--Boat  Search this
Recreation--Sport & Play--Racing  Search this
Architecture--Boat--Yacht  Search this
Control number:
IAP 89490012
Data Source:
Art Inventories Catalog, Smithsonian American Art Museums
EDAN-URL:
edanmdm:siris_ari_382049