Stormy Seas
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Stanley Cursiter - British
In the Orkneys, Westray
Cliffs, Orkney
Waves Breaking on Cliffs, Orkney, 34 x 40 inches
Saturday, May 23, 2009
Friday, May 22, 2009
Laurits Bernhard Holst - Danish 1848-1934
Rocky Coastline with Distant Shipping, 1885
33 x 55 inches
Waves Crashing on a South African Coast
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Tuesday, May 19, 2009
William Ritschel - German American 1864-1949
Incoming Tide, Point Lobos, 20 x 24 inches
Stormy Cove, 12 x 16 inches
Under Tropical Skies, 30 x 36 inches
Yankee Point, Carmel, 30 x 40 inches
Carmel, Oncoming Tide, 12 x 16 inches
Sunday, May 17, 2009
Frederick Judd Waugh - American
High Water, 25 x 30 inches
Massachusetts Coast, 24 x 36 inches
West Shore, Provincetown, 25 x 30 inches
Saturday, May 16, 2009
Hermanus Koekkoek - Dutch 1815-1882
A Shipwreck off the Coast, 37.5 x 58 cm
Fishermen Hauling in the Nets, 18.5 x 26 cm
Friday, May 15, 2009
Alfred Bricher - American
Rocky Head with Sailboats in Distance
Waves on a Rocky Coast, 18 x 39 inches
A Coastal Scene, 13 x 29 inches
Maine Seascape, 10 x 14 inches
Joaquin Sorolla - Spanish
Boats Leaving the Harbour, Asturias, 9 x 16 cm
Boats on the Beach, 20 x 30 cm
Wednesday, May 13, 2009
Max Roeder, German 1866-1947
Iphigenie, 100 x 125cm
This work, by the symbolist painter, Max Roeder, combines receding horizontal and vertical lines - waves and clefts in the cliffs. The white figure looking out to sea seems to be echoed in negative in the shadowy sea cave.
Robert Henri - American 1865-1929
Rocks and Sea - Monhegan Island, 20 x 25 cm
In earlier posts we discussed the idea of framing the sea with rocks on either side, to avoid a lopsided composition with a vertical element on one side, and a horizontal one on the other. In this work, it appears as if the mass of rock on the right side was added later, for this reason.
