Thimble Islands, Near New Haven

Details

ARCHIBALD CARY SMITH (1837-1911)
Thimble Islands, Near New Haven
signed 'A Cary Smith.' (lower right)
oil on canvas
11 ½ x 21 ½ in. (29.2 x 54.6 cm.)

Provenance

Spanierman Gallery, New York.
Albany Gallery, Albany, New York.
Private collection, Connecticut.
Shannon's, Milford, Connecticut, 28 April 2018, lot 46.
Acquired by the present owner from the above.

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Lot Essay

Archibald Cary Smith began his career as a shipbuilder, before following in the footsteps of his father, the ship-portrait painter Joseph B. Smith, and studying painting under the Dutch-American artist Mauritz F.H. de Haas. Smith's firsthand experience designing yachts and other craft informs the variety of vessels seen along the horizon in the present glowing depiction of the Thimble Islands off the coast of Connecticut.

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