Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor is a mid 19th century painting by American artist Fitz Henry Lane. The painting is in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York city.[1]
Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor | |
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Artist | Fitz Henry Lane |
Year | 1862 |
Medium | Oil on canvas |
Dimensions | 96.5 cm × 152.4 cm (38.0 in × 60.0 in) |
Location | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York |
Accession | 1978.203 |
Done in oil on canvas, the work depicts the Stage Fort in Gloucester, Massachusetts, once a military installation and now in Stage Fort Park. The detailed foreground links to the sparely rendered background via the curving spit of land in a style typical of Lane's later work.
The painting is on view at the Metropolitan Museum's Gallery 761.
References
edit- ^ "Stage Fort across Gloucester Harbor". www.metmuseum.org. Retrieved 2018-10-05.