Rhode Island Shore 1858

Martin Johnson Heade (1819-1904) was one of the central figures in the American luminist movement, a late manifestation of the Hudson River school of landscape painting. During the third quarter of the 19th century, landscape artists such as Heade combined accurate, naturalistic detail with brilliant illumination and a sense of order and harmony to create timeless, silent ...

Size:: 20 1/4 x 32 1/4 in. (51.44 x 81.92 cm)
Medium:: Oil on canvas
Credit:: Courtesy of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
More:: https://collections.lacma.org/node/176474

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John ReisArt Lover (0)
5 months ago
I grew up in this area and I believe the painting is from the perspective of a spot in Tiverton RI. It appears to painted from Fogland Point looking south along the Sakonnet River which is actually an arm of Narragansett Bay. The painting is focused on High Hill Point which straddles the line between Tiverton and Little Compton RI.