Marblehead

 

George Milton Hammell

  1852 - 1916 (biography)

1911  

watercolor 

11 7/8 x 18"  

pencil, lower right 

 

pencil signed, titled, and dated below image; pencil written on verso: "All sails furled" 

 

gray watercolor paper 

 

artist 

20533 

$600.00 

An early 20th century watercolor of the harbor at Marblehead, Massachusetts, with boats at anchor and a layer of fog above. Of note is the simplicty Hammell employed to produce this work, a style he appears to have reserved for depicting bodies of water in order to capture the serenity of the scene. Hammell was from Ohio but traveled throughout the eastern United States and Europe to sketch and paint.