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Sailing Ship--off Coast of Maine
William E. Norton (born Boston, MA 1843-died New York City 1916)
1876
- Medium
- oil on canvas
- Classification
- Paintings
- Dimensions
- 9 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (24.8 x 41.0 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. Maine Coast has broad brushstrokes and little detail, suggesting that Norton created it “on the spot” as a study for a more finished work such as Sailing Ship, which was probably painted back in his studio.
