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A Coming Storm
20 x 32 inches
Signed lower left: WmT. Richards. / 01.
Provenance
Mrs. Elsie Folsom MacTaggert, Boston, Massachusetts
Mrs. Alison McFarlin Convery, Edgartown, Massachusetts, by descent from above, 1959
Ms. Susan Convery, Plantation, Florida, by descent from above, 2024
Related Works
New Jersey Beach, 1901, oil on canvas, 28 ¼ x 48 ¼ inches, signed and dated lower left: Wm T. Richards. 1901; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
On the Coast of New Jersey, 1883, oil on canvas, 40 ¼ x 72 ¼ inches, signed and dated lower left: Wm T. Richards. 1901; The National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Note
As a young painter, Richards came of age during the peak of Hudson River School artists such as Thomas Cole and Asher Durand. Richards’ landscapes evolved from the romanticized style of this earlier generation to include scientific detail and tactile realism. He was known to spend hours studying waves, observing the changes in light and color with their fluid motion.