Harbor Court, Gloucester, Massachusetts
Signed lower right: J. JEFFREY GRANT
Description
Schooled in the European academic tradition, James Jeffery Grant brought to his canvasses an intelligent and disciplined feeling for composition, form and color, all elements on display in Harbor Court, Gloucester, Massachusetts. The scene captures an unusual vantage point looking down the stairway of Herrick Court to the waters of the Inner Harbor’s North Channel, with the hills of East Gloucester on the horizon.
Provenance
Private collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Inscriptions
- (top stretcher in newer pen) GEO. K. DAHLIN GLOUCHESTER (sic)
- (left stretcher in old pen) Boyer (?) 1948
- (left stretcher in pencil, also on left side of old frame) NO 100
- (left stretcher in old pen) $500.00
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently cleaned and strip-lined. There is scattered very minor in-paint in the sky, in the wharf buildings upper left, in the white house and stairs, and in the lower right rocks.
Frame Details
Description
Schooled in the European academic tradition, James Jeffery Grant brought to his canvasses an intelligent and disciplined feeling for composition, form and color, all elements on display in Harbor Court, Gloucester, Massachusetts. The scene captures an unusual vantage point looking down the stairway of Herrick Court to the waters of the Inner Harbor’s North Channel, with the hills of East Gloucester on the horizon.
Provenance
Private collection, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Inscriptions
- (top stretcher in newer pen) GEO. K. DAHLIN GLOUCHESTER (sic)
- (left stretcher in old pen) Boyer (?) 1948
- (left stretcher in pencil, also on left side of old frame) NO 100
- (left stretcher in old pen) $500.00
Labels
Exhibitions
Literature
Condition
Very good. The painting was recently cleaned and strip-lined. There is scattered very minor in-paint in the sky, in the wharf buildings upper left, in the white house and stairs, and in the lower right rocks.
