Almy's Pond, Newport

1875

Since his days as an American Pre-Raphaelite painter of nature in situ William Trost Richards had revered the natural environment, and in the 1870s he found his muse in the Newport region. He began to translate the area's topography, geology and waters into watercolors and oil paintings that combined truth to nature with a mastery of light and atmosphere. In Almy's Pond he portrays the area near Bailey's Beach, a popular tourist site in the nineteenth century.

Newport

Watercolor on paper

mat: 16 in x 20 in; image: 8 1/2 in x 13 1/2 in

Gift of Bruce Howe

1991.014.078