# Sailing Ship--off Coast of Maine

- By: William E. Norton (born Boston, MA 1843-died New York City 1916)
- Date: 1876
- Medium: oil on canvas
- Classification: Paintings
- Dimensions: 9 3/4 x 16 1/8 in. (24.8 x 41.0 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=18866)
- Rights: [CC0 (Smithsonian Open Access)](https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/)
- Picture: https://invisiblenetwork.ai/thumbs/web/2486f6ebf702c427a075237c523c93d1.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. 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.