Indian Rock, Narragansett, Rhode Island
William Stanley Haseltine (1863)
What would you hear, smell, and feel from this location?
During the American Civil War, Haseltine traveled repeatedly to the rocky coastline of New England to sketch the sea and shore that appear in his strongest works. In this painting, waves rise up from the blue sea, turning green as they stretch toward the sky and crash upon the orange rocks. The painting’s horizontal emphasis and bold light lend a calm timelessness to the scene, prompting one critic to praise “these noble rock portraits set in the deep blue crystalline of the sea.”
\ Artist
William Stanley Haseltine
American
Born:
1835
Died:
1900
Death place:
Rome, Italy
Born in Philadelphia, William Stanley Haseltine traveled to Germany to study painting after graduating from Harvard in 1854. While there he met the American artists Emanuel Leutze, Worthington Whittredge, and Albert Bierstadt. Together, the group journeyed down the Rhine River to Switzerland and Rome in 1856. These experiences influenced Haseltine’s development as a landscape painter. After returning to the United States in 1858, he continued to make excursions in pursuit of landscape subjects.
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Medium
Oil on canvas
Credit
Museum purchase, Roscoe and Margaret Oakes Income Fund