Figure 1 Fitz Henry Lane (1804–1865), Brace’s Rock, Eastern...

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Description: Brace's Rock, Eastern Point

TitleBrace's Rock, Eastern Point

Creator nameLane, Fitz Hugh

Creator nationality/cultureAmerican

Creator rolePainter

Creation date1864

Object typePainting

MaterialsOil on canvas

LocationCape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Massachusetts

https://www.capeannmuseum.org/collections/objects/Brace-rock/

Accession number2007.10

SubjectsShorelinesLuminism (Art)Landscape painting, American

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The Coasts of Experience: Fitz Henry Lane’s Brace’s Rock, Eastern Point

David Peters Corbett

Description: Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting...

Colonization, Wilderness, and Spaces Between: Nineteenth-Century Landscape Painting in Australia and the United States

~The first and enduring impression of Brace’s Rock, Eastern Point (1864; fig. 1) by the New England marine painter Fitz Henry Lane is one of stillness and emptiness. In part, this impression is the result of the emphatic horizontality of the composition. A series of parallel divisions rises above the strikingly heavy...

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David Peters Corbett

PublisherTerra Foundation for American Art

Related print edition pages: pp.34-48

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00293.2

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22256&redirecttoanchor=75425

Chapter subject tags:Landscape painting, AmericanLane, Fitz Henry, 1804-1865Visual perceptionMelville, Herman, 1819-1891. Typee

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