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Ladies in White Hiding from the Sun

East Hampton Beach, New York
1874 HB187410

Costume
   Longsleeve white dresses with red jackets capes, hats, parasols.

   Face and hands.

Actions
Three young ladies huddle under their sun umbrellas at the seaside. A friend arrives (1).

Commentary
   We are just west of the main beach at East Hampton, looking east toward Montauk Point, with the Atlantic Ocean to our right.

Source
    Winslow Homer, "East Hampton Beach, Long Island, NY," collection of Mr. and Mrs. Paul Mellon. 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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