Seascape, Scituate

Details

ALFRED THOMPSON BRICHER (1837-1908)
Seascape, Scituate
signed with initials in monogram and dated 'ATBricher. Scituate./1877.' (lower left)
gouache on paper
19 x 37 in. (48.3 x 93.9 cm.)
Executed in 1877.

Provenance

Private collection, Boston, Massachusetts.
Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Acquired by the present owner from the above, 1974.

Literature

Alfred Thompson Bricher papers, Archives of American Art, roll 911.

Exhibited

Columbia, South Carolina, Columbia Museum of Art, Americana: A Painting Survey of the American Scene from the Collection of the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family, January 29-March 14, 1976.
College Station, Texas, Texas A&M University, Memorial Student Center Gallery, The American Vision: Paintings from the C. Thomas May, Jr. Family Collection, August 23-September 19, 1982, pp. 22-23, illustrated.
Dallas, Texas, Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas Collects American Paintings: Colonial to Early Modern, September 16-November 14, 1982, no. 17, illustrated.
Huntsville, Alabama, Huntsville Museum of Art; New York, The Lotos Club, The May Family Collection of American Paintings, February 7-May 1, 1988, pp. 18-19, 57, no. 4, illustrated.
Portland, Maine, Portland Museum of Art, April 15-September 30, 1992.

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Lot Essay

"During the summers from 1877 to 1883, Alfred Bricher sketched along the coast south of Boston near Scituate, Massachusetts, with the intention that these sketches would be used for full-scale paintings executed back in his New York studio during the following winters. Seascape, Scituate is probably one of the first major works to result from the artist's trips to the region.

Bricher had become interested in using watercolor in the early 1870s. An exhibition of his works in this medium in 1873 prompted an invitation to membership in the American Society of Painters in Water Colors, an organization in which Bricher quickly became quite active. He showed his works in the Society's exhibitions for some years and served on its Board of Control and Hanging Committee." (The May Family Collection of American Paintings, Huntsville, Alabama, 1988, p. 18)

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