Clamming at Shelter Island
A strong cross-current of early French impressionism influenced a number of prominent post-Civil War artists working on the East End, including Thomas Moran, William Merritt Chase, and Frank Myers Boggs, who studied art in Paris under French painter and teacher Jean-Léon Gérôme . Several years before Boggs left for his training in France, he painted this remarkable scene of African Americans clamming in the turbulent waters off of Shelter Island.
Frank Myers Boggs (1855 – 1926)
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Über dieses Kunstwerk
- Titel: Clamming at Shelter Island
- Künstler: Frank Myers Boggs
- Jahr: 1878
- Format: Panoramic
- Urheberrechtlicher Status: Gemeinfreiheit
- Bewegung: Impressionism
- Schöpferische Phase: Mature Period
- Kontext des Korpus: civil war era realism , regionalist elements
- Schlagworte: strong cross current , marine painting style , coastal scene painting
- Farbintensität: Monochromatic

