Gloucester Harbor (William Morris Hunt) Explained

Gloucester Harbor
Artist:William Morris Hunt
Year: 1877
Material:Oil on canvas
Height Metric:53
Width Metric:79
City:Boston
Museum:Museum of Fine Arts

Gloucester Harbor is a late 19th-century painting by American artist William Morris Hunt. Done in oil on canvas, the impressionist painting depicts morning in the harbor of Gloucester, a major fishing port in New England. The painting was one of Hunt's first forays into the school of impressionism, and the creation of Gloucester Harbor and several other impressionism-inflected works sparked Bostonian interest in the impressionist movement. The painting is currently on display at the Museum of Fine Arts.[1]

Notes and References

  1. News: Gloucester Harbor. 2017-03-01. Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. 2018-07-26. en.