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inv. 135
Near Southeast View of Bear Island
Bear Island, Maine; South East View of Bear Island
1855
Graphite on paper (2 sheets)
10 3/4 x 22 3/4 in. (27.3 x 57.8 cm)
Inscribed lower center (in pencil): Near South East View of Bear Island Sketched by F.H. Lane Sept. 1855 / Lane-Stevens-Hooper; Inscribed center (in pencil): red brush / white

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Supplementary Images

Viewpoint chart showing Lane's location when making this image
Photo: © Erik Ronnberg/U.S. Coast Survey
Infrared detail of house.
Photo: Marcia Steele
© Cape Ann Museum
infrared detail showing color designations for painting.
Photo: Marcia Steele
© Cape Ann Museum

Provenance (Information known to date; research ongoing.)

the Artist, Gloucester, Mass.
Alice (Mrs. George B.) Stevens, Gloucester, Mass.
Cape Ann Museum, Gloucester, Mass.

Exhibition History

DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts, Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition, March 20–April 17, 1966., no. 66.
Traveled to: Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, Maine, 30–6, 1966.
John Wilmerding, William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, Rockland, Maine, Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1805, July 12–September 15, 1974., no. 12, ill., lent by the Cape Ann Historical Association.

Published References

Wilmerding, John. Fitz Hugh Lane: The First Major Exhibition. Lincoln, MA: De Cordova Museum; in association with Colby College Art Museum, 1966., no. 66, Bear Island, Maine. ⇒ includes text
Paintings and Drawings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Gloucester, MA: Cape Ann Historical Association, 1974., fig. 56.
Fitz Hugh Lane 1804-1865. Rockland, ME: William A. Farnsworth Library and Art Museum, 1974., no. 12, ill.
Wilmerding, John. Paintings by Fitz Hugh Lane. Washington, DC: National Gallery of Art; in association with Harry N. Abrams, 1988., ill. in b/w p. 148 fig. 26, Near Southeast View of Bear Island.
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. 56, p.63. ⇒ 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. 67, Near Southeast View of Bear Island.

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Citation: "Near Southeast View of Bear Island, 1855 (inv. 135)." Fitz Henry Lane Online. Cape Ann Museum. http://fitzhenrylaneonline.org/catalog/entry.php?id=135 (accessed March 28, 2024).
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