From: Thyssen-Bornemisza National Museum
In a letter written shortly before his death the American painter Edward Henry Potthast (1857-1927) recalled that he spent most of his summers "along the New England coast-Annisquam, Gloucester and Provincetown. Of late years I have been going to the Maine coast".
To the list of places visited along the eastern coastline of the United States, Potthast might have added Noank, Connecticut, on the Mystic River, where he also sketched and is probably the subject of this painting.
Edward Henry Potthast's paintings along the northern shoreline of the United States are markedly different from his joyful scenes of New York City's beaches.
