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| Keywords: Lane, Fitz Henry, Ship in Fog, Gloucester Harbor, ca. 1860.jpg Artwork Creator Fitz Henry Lane Fitz Henry Lane ™s masterpiece Ship in Fog Gloucester Harbor is an archetype of Luminism a style characterized by an intense preoccupation with light and atmosphere that flourished among a group of American painters between 1850 and 1875 Luminist artists evinced an acute awareness of the natural world and sought to unite matter and spirit through a focus on atmospheric effects captured in works rendered with great subtlety and carefully wrought detail often evoking a magical stillness Aligned with the philosophical precepts of Ralph Waldo Emerson and the Transcendentalists who saw nature as the ultimate expression of the divine Luminist painters produced in the sparsely peopled and sparely composed canvases they favored perhaps the most meditative and captivating landscapes in American art ~ 1860 Oil on canvas Size cm 61 99 Institution Princeton University Art Museum American Art object history exhibition history credit line Museum purchase made possible by the Fowler McCormick Class of 1921 Fund; the Kathleen C Sherrerd Program Fund for American Art; and Celia A Felsher Class of 1976 and John L Cecil Class of 1976 accession number place of creation Princeton University Art Museum PD-old-100 1865 cite web Fitz Henry Lane ™s Ship in Fog Gloucester Harbor http //artmuseum princeton edu/story/fitz-henry-lane ™s-ship-fog-gloucester-harbor Princeton University Art Museum American art in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 Paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 American paintings in the Princeton University Art Museum 1860 Fitz Hugh Lane Art concerning Gloucester Massachusetts Fog in art | ||||
