Untitled (moon over a harbor, wharf scene with full moon and masts of boats)
ca. 1868
- Medium
- oil on fiberboard
- Dimensions
- 24.5 × 38.7 cm
- Status
- In Museum Collection
- Collect24 Art ID
- C24-137074
Edward Mitchell Bannister lived his entire life by the sea and probably made this painting while he was living in Boston in the late 1860s. Although he never traveled abroad, Bannister was influenced by late nineteenth-century French landscape painting, which shows in his thick brushstrokes, subdued colors, and simple compositions. In this painting of a moonlit harbor, the misty colors and bleak …
Provenance
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of H. Alan and Melvin Frank
Registry history
- ca. 1868 — Recorded in the collection of Smithsonian American Art Museum
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