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Charles Walter Stetson

A Road to the Sea, 1883

Description

Maker

Charles Walter Stetson, 1858-1911, American

Title

A Road to the Sea

Year

1883

Medium

Watercolor over charcoal on paper

Materials/Techniques

Materials

Supports

heavy wove rag watercolor paper

Dimensions

35.6 x 53.3 cm (14 x 21 inches)

Signature / Inscription / Marks

Signed, LR corner: Ch. Walter Stetson 83. Inscribed verso "A Road to the Sea" in graphite.

Type

Credit

Gift of the Estate of Scott A. Smith

Object Number

34.785

Exhibition History

Landscape and Leisure

March 13 - July 19, 2015

The Rhode Island painter Charles Stetson spent his early career in Providence, exhibiting at the Providence Art Club alongside other artists exploring watercolor painting with new emphasis. With Sydney Richmond Burleigh, Stetson designed the famed Fleur de Lys Studio at 7 Thomas Street. Stetson was admired by his contemporaries for his color sense, and artist George Whitaker described him as having a “quick . . . observation of things, especially fugitive effects like cloud shadows falling upon the landscape.” In this expansive work, he used translucent washes and layered emerald green and heavy blue washes into color masses to create a moody landscape in advance of a rainstorm.

Gifts from the Rhode Island Foundation

January 6 - February 26, 1989

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