Nº 90
Reading edition
George Herbert McCord, A.N.A. AMERICAN: 1840-
EVENING IN THE HARBOR
Height, 22 inches; length, 27 inches
In the foreground, on the right, a square-rigged vessel and two fore-and-aft craft are moored to a quay, and several small boats with oarsmen float nearby. On the left the estuary extends away to the distance, where the buildings of a hillside town are seen on one side, and a grassy slope with scattered cottages leads down to the water on the other. Two fishing vessels are drifting on the water in the middle distance, their sails glowing with the light of the sun, which is just disappearing behind the houses of the town. The warm sunset glow touches the edges of high drifting clouds, which nearly touch the sky, fills the shadows with luminous reflections and is re-echoed in the ripples of the water.
Signed at the lower right, G. H. McCord, A.N.A.
Collection of George N. Tyner, New York, 1901.