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Long Island Beach, New York c. 1880 AB188020 Costume Men and women in black suits and longsleever bathingdresses. Girl: pink calf-length dress, hat. Boys: dark jackets and trousers. Face and hands. Bare legs on the boys. Actions A young girl in pink asks her male friends to share their sailboat with them. The adults, all in dark dress, stroll in the background holding their parasols (1). Commentary The tide is in and filling this little backwater. Sailing ships glide on the horizon, and a steamship heads out into the Atlantic. Compare this painting to AB188110. Source Samuel S. Carr, "Children on the Beach," Daniel J. Terra Collection, Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston. IL. Scanned from Ronald G. Pisano, Long Island Landscape Painting, 1820-1920, A New York Graphic Society Book, Little Brown & Co., Boston, 1985. 1 picture. |
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