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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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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