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| Image | Sale date | Auction house | Location | Sale name | Lot No. | Estimate | Price Sold | Condition | Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
May 20, 2008 | Doyle | New York | Modern & Contemporary and European & American Art | 2245 | $****** - ****** | Gray Cliff, Conanicut, Rhode Island |
paintings
22.2 x 41.3 cm (8.75 x 16.25 in)
Oil on panel
Signed Wm T. Richards (lr) and inscribed and titled Gray Cliff/Conanicut-Gray Cliff on the reverse
William Trost Richards
American, 1833-1905
Gray Cliff, Conanicut, Rhode Island
Signed Wm T. Richards (lr) and inscribed and titled Gray Cliff/Conanicut-Gray Cliff on the reverse
Oil on panel
8 3/4 x 16 1/4 inches
William Trost Richards spent his first summer in Rhode Island in 1874. In 1882, he built a home, Gray Cliff, on Conanicut Island in Narragansett Bay. For the remainder of his life, vistas of the bay and the island"s rocky promontories, such as the present painting, dominated his work.
Richards" summer refuge was described in 1912, by Harrison F. Morris: "It stood - a long, shingled house with a roof that tucked it snugly in, with porches overlooking the sea, and walks about on the rocks, with the rich verdure of that coast running to the friendly threshold, and with its detached gray studio in hailing distance as you approached it - it stood on a cliff made conspicuous from land and sea by a jagged white streak of quartz running up through the rock to the doorway. It looked ou
