Oil on canvas painting of a middle-aged fisherman smoking a pipe with a pensive look on face sitting in an empty dory holding the rudder; water and sky in background.
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"Artful Stories": Born in England, Brown immigrated to Brooklyn, New York, in 1853. Having achieved enormous success painting city life, he became interested in the arduous lives of North Atlantic fishermen. Brown spent the summer of 1877 at Grand Manan Island, off northeastern Maine, and returned the following year, also visiting Gloucester, Massachusetts. Here, a hollow-eyed fisherman holds his dorys rudder while smoking a pipe. Despite the threatening clouds, he appears unconcerned by his livelihoods risks. Winslow Homer addressed a similar theme seven years later in his painting, The Fog Warning, painted in 1885, now at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Brown paper label in ink handwritten ""Homeward Bound/J.G. Brown N.A./50 W 10th St. N.Y."" In pencil on top of frame ""Hall/Middle of Hall."" Canvas signed l.r. ""J.G. Brown NA/ N.Y. 1878.""
Original to Rundlet-May House (Portsmouth, N.H.),
Brown, John George, 1831-1913 (Artist)
New York City, New York, United States
46 1/2 x 36 x 4 1/2 (HxWxD) (inches)
Gift of Ralph May
1971.588
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