Beach
Artist
Alfred Thompson Bricher
(American, 1837 - 1908)
Dateca. 1885
MediumInk on paper
DimensionsOverall: 4 1/8 × 7 15/16 inches (10.49 × 20.14 cm)
Credit LineGift of Chapellier Galleries, New York
Object number74-3
Signedl.r.: ATB [monogram]
On View
Not on viewCollections
Gallery LabelSelf-taught artist Alfred Thompson Bricher emerged as one of the most popular marine painters of the late 19th century. For more than 40 years, he traveled along the northeast coast from New Jersey to Maine and recorded his on-the-spot impressions in sketchbooks. He also assembled scrapbooks for his daughter Dottie that included studies from nature as well as drawings of finished paintings.
Beach, a balanced and carefully calculated composition, displays Bricher's typical, strongly horizontal format. The scene is contained within a suggestion of a frame or stretcher that bears the artist's initials at the lower right. Beach may represent a completed painting, possibly from the middle of the 1880s, and may have once been in one of Dottie's scrapbooks.
Beach, a balanced and carefully calculated composition, displays Bricher's typical, strongly horizontal format. The scene is contained within a suggestion of a frame or stretcher that bears the artist's initials at the lower right. Beach may represent a completed painting, possibly from the middle of the 1880s, and may have once been in one of Dottie's scrapbooks.
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