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Untitled (moon over a harbor, wharf scene with full moon and masts of boats)

  • Edward Mitchell Bannister, Untitled (moon over a harbor, wharf scene with full moon and masts of boats), ca. 1868, oil on fiberboard, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of H. Alan and Melvin Frank, 1983.95.76

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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.
Title
Untitled (moon over a harbor, wharf scene with full moon and masts of boats)
Artist
Edward Mitchell Bannister
Date
ca. 1868
On View
  1. Smithsonian American Art Museum
  2. Luce Foundation Center
  3. 3rd Floor
  4. 9B
Dimensions
9 5/8 x 15 1/4 in. (24.5 x 38.7 cm.)
Copyright
Credit Line

Smithsonian American Art Museum

Gift of H. Alan and Melvin Frank

Mediums
oil
Mediums Description
oil on fiberboard
Classifications
Painting
Keywords
  • Landscape – time – night
  • Landscape – wharf
Object Number
1983.95.76
Palette
Linked Open Data URI

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