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Frank Duveneck, Horizon at Gloucester, c. 1905. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.8] -
Zygmund Jankowski, Gloucester Landscape, 1985-86. Oil on masonite. [Acc. #1999.71.1] -
Stow Wengenroth, Rocks and Sea, 1935. Lithograph on paper. [Acc. #2771.28] -
Maurice Prendergast, Annisquam Massachusetts, c. 1919. Watercolor, pastel and pencil on paper. [Acc. #2729.1] -
Stephen Parrish, Gloucester Harbor (after William Morris Hunt), June 1882. Etching on paper. [Acc. #2451.09] -
Emile A. Gruppe, Captain Ben Pine's Docks, Undated. Oil on artist's board. [Acc. #1999.70.3] -
Elaine Wing, Niles Beach, 1995. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.19] -
Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman, Ship in Heavy Seas, 1885. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #1961.5] -
Bernard Chaet, Sunrise, Late 20th century. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2011.40.1] -
Milton Avery, Gloucester Landscape, Late 1930s. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #1996.62] -
Max Kuehne, Gloucester Harbor, 1912. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2547] -
William Meyerowitz, Crow Village, 1922. Oil on linen. [Acc. #2010.29.1] -
Marsden Hartley, Summer Outward Bound, Gloucester, 1931. Oil on board. [Acc. #2009.51.9] -
Stuart Davis, Gloucester Terraces, 1916. Ink and crayon on paper. [Acc. #2000.30] -
Reed Kay, Fort Square, Late Afternoon, 1995. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.27] -
Winslow Homer, Gloucester Harbor and Ten Pound Island, c. 1870. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2010.28] -
George Wainwright Harvey, The Two Cousins: Eliza and Maude, 1884. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2466.50] -
Charles Courtney Curran, The Artist at Work, 1887. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2001.08] -
Frederick J. Mulhaupt, An East Gloucester Wharf, c. 1926. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2763] -
Augustus Waldeck Buhler, Smith Cove, Winter, Undated. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2466.24] -
Erma Wheeler, Quarried Waters, c. 1998. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2009.51.29] -
Hugh Henry Breckenridge, The Cape Ann Shore, 1924. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2004.53] -
Alfred Czerepak, Untitled Seascape, Mid-late 20th century. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2002.17.02] -
Edward Hopper, Cemetary in Gloucester, c. 1920s. Conte crayon on paper. [Acc. #2009.51.13] -
Mary Blood Mellen, Field Beach, Stage Fort Park, c. 1850. Oil on canvas mounted over board. [Acc. #2019.2] -
John Sloan, Glare on the Bay, c. 1914. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.11] -
Umberto Romano, New England Tragedy, 1934. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #1995.78] -
Marsden Hartley, Rocks, Dogtown, 1931. Ink on paper. [Acc. #1999.45] -
Charles Hopkinson, Three Scudding Sailboats, c. 1935-40. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2679.01] -
Kirby Webb Elwell, Untitled, 1891. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2521]
Portrait of a Place: Land and Seascapes
Over the past 375 years, Cape Ann has had the good fortune of attracting a wealth of talented artists to its shores. Early on most were portrait painters; yet midway through the 19th century, as landscape and marine painting came into its own, the balance tipped in favor of artists captivated by the lay of the land rather than the faces of its inhabitants.
Since that time, generations of landscape and marine artists have found inspiration on Cape Ann—from the beaches interspersed along the rock bound coast spanning the promontory's perimeter to the rough and ragged uplands of Dogtown Common; along Gloucester's busy working waterfront to the picturesque beauty of Rockport Harbor—a seemingly endless succession of artists have worked here on Cape Ann, providing us with a portrait of a place no other city or town in this country can match.
The Cape Ann Museum's collection of landscape and marine paintings is highlighted by the works of Fitz Henry Lane as well as those by such distinguished American artists as Mary Blood Mellen, Winslow Homer, Frank Duveneck and Nell Blaine.