# Sunrise over Fishing Waters--Maine

- By: William E. Norton (born Boston, MA 1843-died New York City 1916)
- Date: 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
- Credit line: Smithsonian American Art Museum, Gift of Alice H. Rossin
- Museum: [Smithsonian Institution](https://americanart.si.edu/collections/search/artwork/?id=18867)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/15283ada40d6dc1dca4f51ba59bdf18c.jpg
- Who can see it: Little Ones profiles and older (museums give no ratings; placed by Invisible Network from the museum's own words)

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.