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Untitled (moon over a harbor, wharf scene with full moon and masts of boats)
ca. 1868
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Born: St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828
Died: Providence, Rhode Island 1901
oil on fiberboard
9 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (24.5 x 38.7 cm.)
Smithsonian American Art Museum
Gift of H. Alan and Melvin Frank
1983.95.76
Smithsonian American Art Museum
3rd Floor, Luce Foundation Center
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 landscape create a mysterious scene, as if Bannister had painted it in the middle of the night.
- This object is featured in the Luce Center's Mix Tape.
For more information about this work visit the Luce Foundation Center.
Keywords
Architecture - boat - sailboat
Landscape - celestial - moon
Landscape - time - night
Landscape - wharf
Waterscape - boat
painting
paint - oil
fiberboard
About Edward Mitchell Bannister
Born: St. Andrews, New Brunswick, Canada 1828 Died: Providence, Rhode Island 1901
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