Untitled (Nocturne, village on the water, Ipswich (?), Massachusetts)
Artist
Theodore M. Wendel
American, 1857 - 1932
Dateca. 1910
MediumOil on canvas
DimensionsStretcher: 20 1/8 x 24 in. (51.1 x 61 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 27 x 30 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (68.6 x 78.4 x 5.7 cm)
Frame Dimensions: 27 x 30 7/8 x 2 1/4 in. (68.6 x 78.4 x 5.7 cm)
ClassificationsPaintings
Credit LineGift of Mary H. Beeman to the Pruyn Family Collection
Object number1995.18.1
On View
Not on viewCollections
- American Paintings & Sculpture
Signed"THEO WENDEL" painted in grey block capital letters, LR
Inscribed"#3739" in pencil at the midpoint of the left stretcher, back
DescriptionA nocturnal land- and waterscape most likely in Ipswich, Massachusetts a coastal town north of Boston, located on Ipswich Bay and the tidal Ipswich River (see Notes).View from a slight elevation looking across calm water to a low hillside populated with dwellings and other domestic scale buildings. The closest to the edge of the water and most prominent of these is a light colored two-story house with yellow light spilling from two second floor windows. It is reflected in the water. To the right of this reflection is a small sailboat. The sails create a long white reflection in the water.
Trees and plants fill the right foreground. There is a small building, possibly a boat shed in the left foreground.
On the reverse, an oil-sketch outlined in blue and white, in the foreground shadows indicating indentations in the snow, presumably footsteps, run horizontally along the bottom quarter of the scene, backed by bare trees with long shadows, the mid-ground has a low, picket fence running across the scene and two roofs behind the fence indicate that there are at least two structures sketched in there.
ProvenanceQueensbury, NY, Mary Hoopes Beeman
1995, Glens Falls, NY, The Hyde Collection Trust (by bequest)
