Dancing Water, Gloucester, Massachusetts

Provenance

Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts

Private collection, Rhode Island, acquired from above, 1989

Related Works

Fishing Boats, Gloucester, ca. 1915–1920, oil on canvas, 24 x 30 inches, signed lower right; Brooklyn Museum, New York

Gloucester Harbor, 1920, oil on canvas; Mariners’ Museum, Newport News, Virginia

Fishing Boats at Dock, oil on canvas, 23⅝ x 29¾ inches; University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Maryland

Note: This work exemplifies Jane Peterson’s colorful impasto brushwork, which came to characterize her celebrated depictions of Gloucester harbor. A review from 1917 describes, “Miss Jane Peterson uses strong colors and a broad brush to give the facts about docks and fishing craft and harbors in a somewhat knock-you-down fashion.”_[1]

_[1] “A Showing of Pastel and Aquarelle,” The Art World 1, no. 6 (March 1917): 381.