Detail View: The AMICA Library: Boats at Rest
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AMICA ID:
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AIC_.1990.394
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AMICA Library Year:
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1998
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Object Type:
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Paintings
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Creator Name:
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Dow, Arthur Wesley
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Creator Nationality:
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North American; American
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Creator Dates/Places:
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American; 1857-1922 North and Central America,North America,United Sta
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Creator Name-CRT:
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Arthur Wesley Dow
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Title:
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Boats at Rest
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Title Type:
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preferred
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View:
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full view
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Creation Date:
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c. 1895
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Creation Start Date:
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1890
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Creation End Date:
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1900
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Materials and Techniques:
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Oil on canvas
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Creation Place:
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North and Central America,North America,United States,Massachusetts,Ipswich
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Dimensions:
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66 x 91.4 cm (26 x 36 in.)
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AMICA Contributor:
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The Art Institute of Chicago
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Owner Location:
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Chicago, Illinois, USA
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ID Number:
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1990.394
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Credit Line:
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The Art Institute of Chicago, Through prior acquisition of the Charles H. and Mary F.S. Worcester Collection
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Inscriptions:
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Signed, lower left: "Arthur W. Dow"
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Rights:
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Context:
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After studying in Paris between 1884 and 1889, Arthur Wesley Dow returned home to Ipswich, Massachusetts, and concentrated on local landscape views. Dow also became enamored of Japanese prints after his return to the United States. In works like Boats at Rest, he combined regionalist subjects with Asian-inspired compositions and vividly juxtaposed colors. The forceful cropping of Boats at Rest corresponds to the compositional devices used by Japanese printmakers, as do the strong diagonals of the boats and river flowing through the composition. The high-keyed palette of jarring colors, however, is more akin to the work of French Post-Impressionist painters.
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Related Image Identifier Link:
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AIC_.E22343.TIF
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