Depicting the northern end of Niles Beach, A Day at the Beach, Eastern Point, Gloucester features several figures enjoying the beautiful weather amid tranquil Gloucester Harbor, far afield from the bustling wharves of the town’s lifeblood fishing industry at Inner Harbor. The rich blues of the water and sky draw the eyes past the foreground grasses, along the beach to the expanse of the harbor and the pleasure craft in the distance. The round building on the right has been identified as the bathhouse of the Beachcroft Hotel, built in 1888 to accommodate the throngs of summertime visitors to Gloucester, along with several other grand hotels that dotted East Gloucester’s shoreline at the turn of the twentieth century. While the Beachcroft was razed in 1934, the bathhouse was purportedly torn down several years prior and replaced by the Eastern Point Yacht Club’s clubhouse before the organization relocated to its current site near the southernmost end of Eastern Point.

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Provenance:

Private collection, Sarasota, Florida, until 1997

With Vose Galleries, Boston, inventory no. 32082, June 1997

To Vance Jordan Fine Art, Inc., New York, New York, February 1998

Eventually to private collection, New York, New York, by 2024

Inscription:

(on upper stretcher at left, in pencil) 7648

Literature:

Vose Art Notes: A Guide for Collectors, Volume VII, Vose Galleries, Boston, Winter 1997 – 1998, illus. p. 10