We look slightly down onto a bay that curves away from us into the distance and to our right in this horizontal landscape painting. C-shaped, shallow waves lap at the sandy beach from our right. Several people standing and playing in the water wear hats and long-sleeved shirts. Two women there hold up their skirts as they wade in the ankle-deep water, a small brown dog close behind them. Another person wearing white walks on the wet sand, and four more gather a short distance away, to our left, perhaps on a blanket. Opposite us and far away, brown horses pull a carriage along the beach. The…
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Second Beach, Newport

Worthington Whittredge (American, 1820 - 1910)

c. 1878/1880

Medium
oil on canvas
Classification
Painting
Dimensions
overall: 76.8 x 127.6 cm (30 1/4 x 50 1/4 in.) ; framed: 108 x 158.4 cm (42 1/2 x 62 3/8 in.)
Culture
American
Museum
National Gallery of Art, CAB
Credit line
Paul Mellon Fund and Gift of Juliana Terian in memory of Peter G. Terian
Rights
Public domain (NGA Open Access, CC0), as the museum states it.
Who can see it
Tweens profiles and older: its subjects are known and suit older children. How works are placed

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