Untitled (Square Rigger at Sea)
Thomas-Pollack ANSHUTZ
(USA, 1851-1912)
Untitled (Square Rigger at Sea)
Datec. 1900
Mediumoil on panel
Dimensionsframe opening: 8 1/8 x 4 1/8 in. (20.6 x 10.5 cm)
frame: 14 1/8 x 10 1/4 in. (35.9 x 26 cm)
ClassificationPAINTINGS
Credit LineSBMA, Gift of Margaret P. Mallory
Object number1991.154.1
Subject(s)
- boat
- ocean
- ocean
Collection
- 20th century American
On View
On viewLabel TextAnshutz succeeded his teacher, Thomas Eakins, as Chief Demonstrator of Anatomy at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, following Eakins’ dismissal in 1886. Eakins was punished for teaching life-drawing classes from the nude male model that included women students, which, at the time, was considered scandalous. Celebrated for his award-winning portraiture, Anshutz was also a devoted landscape painter, conversant with Impressionist techniques. Meticulously observed studies such as this may have been informed by photographs, which Anshutz was known to have used as aides-mémoire.
