1883, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Moonlit Cove -- Phillips Collection (Washington)
From the museum label: On Tack's advice, Phillips bought paintings by Ryder, noting their independence of vision and style and their "abstract expression of form through color." Phillips wrote extensively on Ryder and in 1916 stated: "Moonlit Cove is one of the world's great romantic pictures—high tide and the glare of the moon. Something is soon to happen in this black corner of the coast. We know this, although we only find, dimly, in the shadow of a great rock, an empty deep-bottomed boat which casts its own shadow across the glistening, seething surf."
1883, Albert Pinkham Ryder, Moonlit Cove -- Phillips Collection (Washington)
From the museum label: On Tack's advice, Phillips bought paintings by Ryder, noting their independence of vision and style and their "abstract expression of form through color." Phillips wrote extensively on Ryder and in 1916 stated: "Moonlit Cove is one of the world's great romantic pictures—high tide and the glare of the moon. Something is soon to happen in this black corner of the coast. We know this, although we only find, dimly, in the shadow of a great rock, an empty deep-bottomed boat which casts its own shadow across the glistening, seething surf."