Winds and Seas
Signed lower right: Waugh
Description
Among the foremost American marine painters of his generation, Frederick Judd Waugh studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. Renowned for his dramatic depictions of the sea, he exhibited at London’s Royal Academy and was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1911. His work is represented in major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Winds and Seas was long cherished in the Vose family collection and exemplifies the powerful ocean subjects for which Waugh is celebrated.
Provenance
American Painting, Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, lot no. 31, September 22, 2015
With Vose Galleries (from above), Boston, Massachusetts, inventory no. 36549, September 2015
To private collection, Mr. and Mrs. Abbot W. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts, November 22, 2015 to present
Inscriptions
1). (top of center stretcher bar, in pencil): Winds & Seas / F. J. Waugh
Labels
Exhibitions
1). Insights on Collecting, Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-July 9, 2016
Literature
Condition
Very good. Unlined. Some inpaint visible under UV light.
Frame Details
Description
Among the foremost American marine painters of his generation, Frederick Judd Waugh studied under Thomas Eakins at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and later at the Académie Julian in Paris. Renowned for his dramatic depictions of the sea, he exhibited at London’s Royal Academy and was elected a full member of the National Academy of Design in 1911. His work is represented in major museum collections, including the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian American Art Museum. Winds and Seas was long cherished in the Vose family collection and exemplifies the powerful ocean subjects for which Waugh is celebrated.
Provenance
American Painting, Christie’s New York, Rockefeller Center, New York, New York, lot no. 31, September 22, 2015
With Vose Galleries (from above), Boston, Massachusetts, inventory no. 36549, September 2015
To private collection, Mr. and Mrs. Abbot W. Vose, Duxbury, Massachusetts, November 22, 2015 to present
Inscriptions
1). (top of center stretcher bar, in pencil): Winds & Seas / F. J. Waugh
Labels
Exhibitions
1). Insights on Collecting, Vose Galleries, Boston, Massachusetts, May 21-July 9, 2016
Literature
Condition
Very good. Unlined. Some inpaint visible under UV light.
