Marsh

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Artist Gifford Beal (American, 1879–1956)

Title Marsh

Date Ca. 1930

Medium Watercolor on paper

Dimensions Image: 8 15/16 × 20 in. (22.7 × 50.8 cm)
Sheet: 8 15/16 × 20 in. (22.7 × 50.8 cm)

Credit Line Gift of Francine and Roger Hurwitz, Eskenazi Museum of Art, Indiana University

Accession Number 2011.290

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Gifford Beal began his artistic education at the age of fourteen, studying at the Shinnecock Hills Summer School of Art, one of the first American schools dedicated to plein air painting. Beal studied with the school’s director, William Merritt Chase, who encouraged his students to paint what they observed directly from nature. Beal
found professional success as an artist, and in the 1930s he began to experiment with abstraction, loosening his brushwork and brightening his palette. This watercolor dates from the earliest phase of that experimentation. The location would be in or around Rockport, Massachusetts, where the family summered.

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2011, Gift to the Indiana University Art Museum from Francine and Roger Hurwitz

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