The Cleveland Museum of Art
Collection Online as of April 17, 2024
Harbor of Boston, with the City in the Distance
c. 1846–1847
(American, 1804–1865)
Framed: 66 x 104.8 x 14 cm (26 x 41 1/4 x 5 1/2 in.); Unframed: 43.2 x 68.6 cm (17 x 27 in.)
Location: 206 American Landscape
Did You Know?
For a long time, art historians mistakenly thought the artist’s middle name was Hugh.Description
In this late afternoon view of Boston Harbor, Lane masterfully evoked the diffuse quality of sunlight reflecting off water. The artist was a son of a shipbuilder, so perhaps it is not surprising that his renderings of ships and their intricate riggings are painstakingly accurate. On the far left side of the painting, evolving technology appears in the guise of a steamboat, which ferried passengers between Boston and Gloucester.- Dr. James H. Armsby, Albany, NY, acquired 1847; Joanna Perry Armsby March, sister of Dr. J.H. Armsby, Albany, NY; Joanna Armsby March Boyd, daughter of Joanna March, Albany, NY; Alden March Boyd, son of Joanna Armsby March Boyd, Santa Barbara, CA; Joanna March Boyd Bard, daugher of Alden March, Santa Barbara, CA; Henry Travers Newton, Jr, Joanna Newton Riccardi, and Georgia Newton Pulos, grandchildren of J.M.B. Bard, Santa Barbara, CA
- Adams, Henry. What's American about American art?: a gallery tour in the Cleveland Museum of Art. Cleveland: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2008. Reproduced: p. 58 - 59
- Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara Collects; Part One: European and American Art (26 January-24 March 1985) illus; listed p. 30; cat. not numbered.Albany, NY, Albany Gallery of Fine Arts Catalogue of Second Exhibition, (1847) cat. no. 136.Albany, NY, Painting and Sculpture Exhibited at Palmer's Studio in Aid of the United States Sanitary Commission (22 February 1864) cat. no. 2.
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https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2004.35