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Sunrise over Fishing Waters--Maine
William E. Norton (born Boston, MA 1843-died New York City 1916)
ca. 1880
- Medium
- oil on wood mounted on paperboard
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 8 1/4 x 13 in. (21.0 x 33.0 cm)
- Culture
- Maine
- Museum
- Smithsonian Institution, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Painting and Sculpture
- Credit line
- Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice H. Rossin
- 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
William E. Norton lived in Boston but spent a great deal of time painting on the coast of Maine. He preferred to work outdoors and probably painted Sunrise over Fishing Waters—Maine during one of his summer trips to the coast. Rather than paint every detail, Norton used delicate dabs of paint to quickly capture the overall scene like the sun's reflection in the water, the breaking waves, and the small sails off in the distance.
