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Cape Cod, Sand Dune
Herman Hartwich (born New York City 1853-died Munich, Germany 1926)
1894
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 13 1/2 x 21 3/8 in. (34.2 x 54.2 cm)
- Culture
- Cape Cod
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Emily Dorothy Ammann
- Rights
- CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access), as the museum states it.
- Who can see it
- Little Ones profiles and older: it shows gentle subjects for the very young. How works are placed
View at the Smithsonian Institution
About this work
Herman Hartwich painted Sand Dune and Beach on Cape Cod, a great curling hook of land jutting out from the eastern coast of Massachusetts. In the nineteenth century the cape was a popular destination for tourists and artists, and the expressive brushstrokes and ragged margins suggest Hartwich painted these on the spot as studies for finished works.
