Peabody Essex exhibition sails through centuries of marine painting

Michele Felice Corne, ‘Ship America on the Grand Banks,’ about 1800 oil on canvas, 39 3/4 x 56 inches (100.965 x 142.24 cm). Gift of Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield, 1953. © 2014 Peabody Essex Museum
Michele Felice Corne, ‘Ship America on the Grand Banks,’ about 1800
oil on canvas, 39 3/4 x 56 inches (100.965 x 142.24 cm). Gift of Mrs. Francis B. Crowninshield, 1953. © 2014 Peabody Essex Museum

SALEM, Mass.– Now on view at the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) is In American Waters, a painting exhibition that reframes and expands our understanding of American culture and environment by looking at the sea. For more than 200 years, American artists have been inspired to capture the beauty, violence, poetry, and transformative power of the sea.

The exhibition, which opened on May 29 and will continue through October 3, features a diverse range of modern and historical artists, including Georgia O’Keeffe, Amy Sherald, Kay WalkingStick, Norman Rockwell, Hale Woodruff, Paul Cadmus, Thomas Hart Benton, Jacob Lawrence, Valerie Hegarty, Stuart Davis, and many others. In American Waters is co-organized by PEM and Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.Continue reading