Blumenthal Swimming Pool Mural, Study

1916

From Delano article "At the time of his death he was at work on the decorations for a swimming pool intended for the house of Mr. George Blumenthal, which bid fair to be the most interesting thing he had yet attempted. He had only completed small scale studies and had painted in the full size a part of one of the panels...There is a curious luminous quality about this study which suggests better than anything I have seen before, the brightness of color seen through the water. He had spent hours studying this at Newport and at the New York Aquarium, and he had drawn and redrawn the forms of various fishes at the Museum of Natural History..."

Newport/New York

Oil on canvas

framed: 65 1/4 in x 26 1/4 in; Image: 64 in x 24 in

Deed of gift of the Howard G. Cushing Memorial Committee

1920.001.013