Moonlight Marine

Edward Mitchell Bannister was the first African American artist to receive widespread acclaim. After a youth spent working on ships along the Atlantic seaboard, the Canadian-born artist eventually settled in Providence, Rhode Island, where he became one of the earliest faculty members of the Rhode Island School of Design.

Best known for pastoral landscapes inspired by Jean-François Millet and the French Barbizon school, Bannister invested his later passion—views of the Atlantic and Rhode Island coastline—with a more experimental vision and dramatic touch. Moonlight Marine is an exceptional example of the painter’s bolder mature style.

We present today's painting thanks to the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.

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