CHESTER LOOMIS (American, 1852-1924). Beach Scene at St. Vaast, 1881. Oil on panel. 10-1/2 x 16 inches (26.7 x 40.6 cm)...

Description

CHESTER LOOMIS (American, 1852-1924)
Beach Scene at St. Vaast, 1881
Oil on panel
10-1/2 x 16 inches (26.7 x 40.6 cm)
Signed with LC monogram, location and [completion?] date lower right: St. Vaast 27 Jun. 1881
Inscribed with date lower right: Jun. 24 1881

PROVENANCE:
Jeffrey R. Brown Fine Arts, North Amherst, Massachusetts (label verso);
Richard York Gallery, New York (label verso);
Formerly in the collection of Henry Glassie, Chevy Chase, MD.

Saint-Vaast-la-Hougue is located in Lower Normandy near Cherbourg. Loomis lived in France for 11 years, from 1874 when he enrolled in the Acadamic Julian and trained under Leon Bonnat, until 1885. He exhibited in six French Salons and painted his greatest concentration of works with Normandy subjects from the later years of his French period. The wonderful freshness with which he handled oil in this beach scene betrays the mark of his particular penchant forand skill with watercolor..

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