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Birge Harrison first visited Charleston, South Carolina, in 1908 and returned several following years to escape the harsh winters at his home in Woodstock, New York. His mesmerizing Tonalist paintings inspired by the harbor, including the present work, immediately garnered praise, as the artist wrote: "The only two pictures which I painted in Charleston last winter, when exhibited with a large collection of my work were selected by a very competent jury of artists as the best in the show. I must certainly do some more of the most exquisite and beautiful effects I have seen anywhere—those that happen many times a day in Charleston harbor. You Charlestonians are so accustomed to the pearl-shell quality of your water view that it seems to you not unusual or out of the ordinary—but this is far from being the fact." (as quoted in M.R. Severens, The Charleston Renaissance, Spartanburg, South Carolina, 1998, p. 50)
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