The Toilers of the Sea
Albert Pinkham Ryder
Oil on Canvas
1885
Gulf Stream
Winslow Homer
Oil on Canvas
1906
Winter, Monhegan Island
Rockwell Kent
Oil on Canvas
1904
At the Met today looking at some of the most iconic American paintings in the collection that I have only seen as photographs since I was in undergraduate art school.
In the Met literature on the painting, The Toilers of the Sea, it says that a sea-captain friend once observed that Ryder would study the moon on the Hudson River to capture "moonlight effects." I like this, having just stood at Linden Terrace at the fort overlooking the Hudson. Beautiful.
