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Catalog entry

inv. 295
Sunrise on the Maine Coast, Mount Desert Island
Sunrise on the Maine Coast; Sunrise, Mount Desert
1856
Oil on canvas
17 x 27 in. (43.2 x 68.6 cm)
Signed and dated lower center: F.H. Lane, 1856
Private collection, on loan at the Farnsworth Museum

Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)

Private collection, on loan at the Farnsworth Museum

Exhibition History

No known exhibitions.

Published References

Wilmerding, John. "Fitz Hugh Lane." The Artist's Mount Desert: American Painters on the Maine Coast. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1994, pp. 45–67., fig. 58, p.64. ⇒ includes text
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 2005. Reprint of Fitz Hugh Lane, by John Wilmerding. New York: Praeger, 1971. Includes new information regarding the artist's name., ill. 70, text, p. 69, Sunrise on the Maine Coast.
Keck, Michaela. Walking in the Wilderness: The Peripatetic Tradition in Nineteenth-Century American Literature and Painting. Heidelberg, Germany: Universitatsverlag Winter, 2006., fig. 31, text, pp. 261–65, Sunrise on the Maine Coast.
Wilmerding, John. Fitz Henry Lane & Mary Blood Mellen: Old Mysteries and New Discoveries. New York: Spanierman Gallery, 2007., p. 15, fig. 3, Sunrise, Mount Desert. ⇒ includes text

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Citation: "Sunrise on the Maine Coast, Mount Desert Island, 1856 (inv. 295)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=295 (accessed April 23, 2024).
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