Zygmund Jankowski, Gloucester Landscape, 1985-86. Oil on masonite. [Acc. #1999.71.1]
Carolyn Harris, At Henry's Pond, Pebble Beach, 1989. Watercolor. [Acc. #2842]
Frank Duveneck, Horizon at Gloucester, c. 1905. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.8]
Stow Wengenroth, Rocks and Sea, 1935. Lithograph on paper. [Acc. #2771.28]
Maurice Prendergast, Annisquam Massachusetts, c. 1919. Watercolor, pastel and pencil on paper. [Acc. #2729.1]
Jan Matulka, Rockport Quarry, c. 1929. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2006.4.3]
Stephen Parrish, Gloucester Harbor (after William Morris Hunt), June 1882. Etching on paper. [Acc. #2451.09]
Stephen Salisbury Tuckerman, Ship in Heavy Seas, 1885. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #1961.5]
Barbara Aparo, Gloucester Linens, 1980. Acrylic on marine canvas. [Acc. #2886]
Max Kuehne, Gloucester Harbor, 1912. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2547]
Elaine Wing, Niles Beach, 1974. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.19]
Bernard Chaet, Sunrise, Undated. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2011.40.1]
Ralph Coburn, Folly Cove 7: Sketch 4, 1980. Acrylic on paper. [Acc. #2795]
Marsden Hartley, Summer Outward Bound, Gloucester, 1931. Oil on board. [Acc. #2009.51.9]
Milton Avery, Gloucester Landscape, Late 1930s. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #1996.62]
Winslow Homer, Gloucester Harbor and Ten Pound Island, 1880. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2010.28]
Stuart Davis, Sketchbook 3-3, Drawing for "Black Roofs" and "Dock, Still Life", c. 1930. Ink on paper. [Acc. #2001.14.3]
Frederick J. Mulhaupt, An East Gloucester Wharf, c. 1926. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2763]
Erma Wheeler, Quarried Waters, c. 1998. Watercolor on paper. [Acc. #2009.51.29]
Hugh Henry Breckenridge, The Cape Ann Shore, 1924. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2004.53]
John Sloan, Glare on the Bay, c. 1914. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #2009.51.11]
Reed Kay, Duncan Street, 1992. Oil on canvas. [Acc. #1994.55]
Over the past 375 years, Cape Ann has had the good fortune of attracting a wealth of talented artists to its shores. Early on most were portrait painters; yet midway through the 19th century, as landscape and marine painting came into its own, the balance tipped in favor of artists captivated by the lay of the land rather than the faces of its inhabitants.
Since that time, generations of landscape and marine artists have found inspiration on Cape Ann—from the beaches interspersed along the rock bound coast spanning the promontory's perimeter to the rough and ragged uplands of Dogtown Common; along Gloucester's busy working waterfront to the picturesque beauty of Rockport Harbor—a seemingly endless succession of artists have worked here on Cape Ann, providing us with a portrait of a place no other city or town in this country can match.
The Cape Ann Museum's collection of landscape and marine paintings is highlighted by the works of Fitz Henry Lane as well as those by such distinguished American artists as Mary Blood Mellen, Winslow Homer, Frank Duveneck and Nell Blaine.