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Frederick Judd Waugh(1861-1940)Surging Surf
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Jewel Bernier
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Frederick Judd Waugh (1861-1940)
signed 'Waugh' (lower right); titled on a label from Grand Central Art Galleries, NY (affixed to the reverse)
oil on Masonite
24 x 30 in. (61.0 x 76.2 cm)
Footnotes
Provenance
Grand Central Art Galleries, New York, by 1935.
Sale, Skinner, Boston, March 14, 1997, lot 315.
The present private collection (acquired from the previous).
Exhibited
Gloucester, North Shore Arts of Gloucester, Thirteenth Annual Exhibition, 1935.
N.B.
Born in New Jersey, Frederick Judd Waugh studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and the Académie Julian. He worked for a time as a marine painter on the island of Sark, off the coast of Normandy, before returning to the United States in 1908. He lived in Maine and in Provincetown, Massachusetts, and became highly successful and sought after for his seascapes. The present work is an animated depiction of a rocky coastline, perhaps off of Massachusetts, under an open sky. While many marine artists of the prior generation had focused on vast, expansive vistas featuring ships, sunsets, or storms, Waugh's seascapes were often, as here, more intimate in scale. Waugh depicts the sea spray and white water with varied, impressionistic strokes, while his more fluid brushstrokes on the rocks make them appear wet and slippery. This light-filled and vibrant scene is exemplary of Waugh's best-known works, and is similar to two of his seascapes currently held at the Metropolitan Museum of Art (Roaring Forties and Wild Weather, inv. nos. 09.96, 50.111).
























