Artwork Details
Artist
Creation Date
Materials
Object Types
Dimensions
15 x 22 in. (canvas) 23-7/8 x 30-1/4 x 2-3/8 in. (framed)
Accession Number
Credit Line
The Holliday Collection
Copyright
Collection
American Painting and Sculpture 1800-1945
Color Palette
Provenance
Artist's widow; (Redfern Gallery, London, England, 1950's); (Hirschl & Adler Galleries, Inc., New York, New York), 1960; W. J. Holliday, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1966; given to the Indianapolis Museum of Art in 1979.
Gallery Labels
- Meteyard applied short, thin strokes of pastel tones to an unprimed canvas. This technique allows the texture of the canvas to show through the paint, re-creating a haze of intense sunlight.
- Originally from Illinois, Meteyard adopted Impressionism in Giverny, France, but then took his practice to Scituate, a seacoast town between Boston and Plymouth, Massachusetts. There, he continued to capture effects of light and atmosphere.
- Although no historical source provides the precise date for this painting, it certainly was painted before 1898, when a powerful storm changed the shape of the coast of Scituate by severing the link between the beach and the cliff in the center of the composition.
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