# Cape Cod, Sand Dune

- By: Herman Hartwich (born New York City 1853-died Munich, Germany 1926)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Emily Dorothy Ammann
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=10042)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2c90489a6084a7f57bd458e621998ae0.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.