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Surge of the Sea

painter Andreas Martin Andersen (Bergen, Norway, 1869 - 1902, Boston)

Dateabout 1900

Place MadeBoston, Massachusetts, United States, North America

MediumOil on canvas

Dimensions31 x 49 cm (12 3/16 x 19 5/16 in.)

ClassificationsPaintings

Credit LineIsabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston

Accession numberP3s11

eMuseum ID719093

EmbARK ObjectID10809

TMS Source ID76

Last Updated11/6/24

Status

Not on view

Web Commentary

Andreas Martin Andersen likely painted this seascape in Newport, Rhode Island, where his family settled in 1873 after emigrating from Norway. Isabella supported many young artists and acquired four paintings and one drawing by Andersen. In one of Andersen's letters to Isabella, he invited her to his studio in Newport where perhaps they admired the ocean waves together.

Tragically Andersen contracted tuberculosis in 1902 and died at the age of 33.

BibliographyNotesCatalogue. Fenway Court. (Boston, 1903), p. 2. (as "Sea and Rocks (in oils)")
Morris Carter. Isabella Stewart Gardner and Fenway Court (Boston, 1925; Reprint, Boston, 1972), p. 160. (as "a Landscape")
Philip Hendy. Catalogue of Exhibited Paintings and Drawings (Boston, 1931), p. 4.
Gilbert Wendel Longstreet and Morris Carter. General Catalogue (Boston, 1935), p. 26.
Philip Hendy. European and American Paintings in the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum (Boston, 1974), p. 1, ill.

MarksNotesInscribed (lower right, in blue paint): Andreas Andersen

ProvenanceNotesPurchased by Isabella Stewart Gardner from the Norwegian painter Andreas Andersen (1869-1902), Boston for $300 on 21 November 1900.