Lot Details
Lot 2410
Alfred Thompson Bricher
American, 1837-1908
Afterglow, Low Tide, Plymouth, Massachusetts
Signed with conjoined initials ATBricher (lr); inscribed on the stretcher Afterglow/Low Tide - Plymouth/Mass. AT Bricher New York and dated indistinctly ...1
Oil on canvas
15 x 33 inches
Exhibited:
Portland, Maine, Baridoff Galleries, Painters of the Hudson River School, August 1983, no. 412.
This roseate, light-infused seascape capturing a transcendent sky at sunset relates closely to other works by Bricher dating between 1885 and 1891. While the inscription on the stretcher identifies the scene depicted as Plymouth, it may actually be a composite image, a practice not unusual for the artist. The composition, with an outcropping of boulders in the foreground, a luminous body of water at center, and a lighthouse perched on a spit of land in the distance, is characteristic of his work. Lighthouses appear in numerous seascapes by Bricher depicting the New England coastline at Scituate and Cohasset, Massachusetts, as well as the coast of Maine. The Shattuck metal stretcher wedges, patented by the artist Aaron Draper Shattuck and commonly used by Bricher, bear the dates 1883 and 1885, supporting a date of execution after those years.
We are grateful to Bricher scholar Jeffrey R. Brown for his assistance in placing this seascape within the broader context of the artist's work.
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