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Fitz Henry Lane
Brig Off the Maine Coast1851

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Oil painting of a large three-masted sailing ship with full white sails cutting through turbulent teal-green seas, rocky outcroppings to the right, under a dramatic cloudy sky with rays of pale light

Fitz Henry Lane, Brig Off the Maine Coast, 1851, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Gift of Charles C. and Elma Ralphs Shoemaker, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA

Artist or Maker
Fitz Henry Lane
United States, Massachusetts, Gloucester, 1804-1865
Title
Brig Off the Maine Coast
Place Made
United States
Date Made
1851
Medium
Oil on canvas
Dimensions
Frame: 38 3/8 x 50 3/8 x 3 5/8 in. (97.4725 x 127.9525 x 9.2075 cm)
Credit Line
Gift of Charles C. and Elma Ralphs Shoemaker
Accession Number
AC1994.152.7
Classification
Paintings
Collecting Area
American Art
Provenance
[The Old Print Shop, New York, in 1962]. [Childs Gallery, Boston, sold by 1966 to]; Kenneth Byrd White, Jr. (1926–2023), Winchendon, Massachusetts, until 1980. [Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York, sold 1981 to]; Charles Comly Shoemaker (1925–1986) and Gloria Elma Ralphs Shoemaker (1930–1994), Los Angeles, gifted 1994 to; LACMA.
Selected Bibliography
  • Slifkin, Robert. 2013. Fitz Henry Lane and the compromised landscape, 1848-1865. American art 27(3): 64-83.
  • Kim, Woollin, Jinmyung Kim, and Songhyuk Yang, eds. Art Across America. Seoul: National Museum of Korea, 2013.
  • Miller, Angela, and Chris McAuliffe, eds. America: Painting a Nation. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2013.