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| Keywords: Sailing off the Coast by Martin Johnson Heade, 1869.jpg Artwork Creator Martin Johnson Heade Sailing off the Coast 1869 oil on canvas cm 38 4 74 White House Washington D C United States Notes from Kloss William et al Art in the White House A Nation's Pride Washington D C The White House Historical Association 2008 <br> A disconsolate sense of time passing irrevocably is established by the measured recession of the silent sails toward the sunset horizon by the numberless pink and blue-gray bands of light and shadow that form the surface of the ocean and by the pale pink-bellied clouds that hover almost regretfully above the horizon Beyond viewing Sailing off the Coast as a record of an unidentified shoreline perhaps Newport one should recognize that the mood of the painting is allied to the mood of the country after the Civil War The White House Historical Association PD-old-100 Other versions http //www whitehouseresearch org/assetbank-whha/action/viewAsset id 232 1860s paintings by Martin Johnson Heade 1869 paintings Paintings in the White House Sailboats in art Sunsets in art Paintings of seascapes with sunset Sailboats at sunset | ||||
